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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three St. Bernard monks (Augustinians), experts both as snow rescuers and proselytizers, left their Grand Hospice in Switzerland last week for Salouen, Tibetan village near the source of the great Yellow River. Salouen is 14,000 ft. high, cold, blustery as the Alpine heights. It is a Buddhist shrine. The St. Bernard group will build a hospice there, will try to convert, Buddhist pilgrims to Roman Catholicism, will succor the snowbound, be they converts or heathen...
...Grand Hotel. About once a season comes a play so superlative as this. People have been going to see Grand Hotel for some time in Max Reinhardt's Berlin theatre, elsewhere in Europe. It was written by Vicki Baum, staged, directed and produced (with Harry Moses) in Manhattan by Herman Shumlin. It is difficult to imagine a better translation than that which William A. Drake has made. Originally titled Menschen Inn Hotel (People in a Hotel), the play manages to grasp a large chunk of existence, thrust it into a Berlin hostelry, expose it completely. It would be easy...
...appearance in Grand Hotel, Henry Hull (Lulu Belle, Michael & Mary, The Ivory Door) has also given his theatrical reputation a boost. He is the dissolute Baron Von Gaigern whose increasing desperation at his failure to get funds, so that he may be aboard the dancer's train, is terminated by a revolver shot. Actor Hull says he likes the role better than any he has ever played since he started acting in 1911. He was born in Louisville, Ky., is 37 years old, went to Columbia University. He likes to farm, has a wife and two children, has written...
...Cities to hear the Don Cossack Chorus: Troy, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Ann Arbor, St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison (Wis.), Pittsburgh, Akron, Indianapolis, Dayton, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Hartford (Conn.), St. George (Staten Island). Baltimore, Washington...
...Timber Queen, Ruth of the Range, The Tiger's Trail), one of which she wrote and directed herself (The Adventures of Ruth), she has been out of pictures. She built up a real estate business in Los Angeles and made several million dollars, one million of which?as a grand gesture rare in life but common to the rich heroines in the tradition she knows?she announced she was settling on Ben Bard when she married...