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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Albert Nathaniel Chaperau (né Shapiro) was a poor boy, and had to make his own way in the world. His way led him from Poland to Philadelphia, Manhattan, London, Paris, Brussels, Australia, Hollywood. It frequently brought him into contact with police and prison keepers, and last week it led him into U. S. District Judge William Bondy's Manhattan courtroom. There three indictments were read to blond, buttery Albert Chaperau. Having heard himself charged with conspiracy, smuggling, faking a passport and fraudulently claiming U. S. citizenship, imperturbed Mr. Chaperau observed: "My past is not a phonograph record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chaperau's Way | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Burns, one of the highest paid radio stars in the country, flew here from Hollywood as soon as he learned of the charges and immediately entered his plea. The maximum penalty is 18 years in prison and $45,000 fine...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

...brow view, most artists are screwy. In any view, two of the screwiest living artists are Painter Salvador Dali and Actor Harpo Marx. It is natural that two such surrealists should be fast friends. Early last year, while visiting in Hollywood, Dali sketched his friend Marx in pastels. Last week the odd result was hunting a buyer in San Francisco. Agent Julien Levy's price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dali's Harpo | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...stunt on which Color Flight is based -making visual equivalents of sounds- is familiar to art students, who often take sketch pads to concerts and try to "draw" the music. Hollywood has lately caught on, and An Optical Poem by Artist Oskar Fischinger, a visual translation of Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, was released last spring by MGM. In Len Lye's new and slicker film, the hot music not only is heard but appears as a complex, fast-changing pattern of brightly or subtly colored shapes. Simultaneous with the trumpet notes of Red Nichols' solo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Film Painter | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Late last September a typical Hollywood party-including Countess Dorothy di Frasso, Marino Bello (once stepfather of the late Jean Harlow). and Richard E. Pulley, cousin of Anthony Eden-put out of Los Angeles in the three-master Met ha Nelson for a month or so of shark-hunting. Master of the ship was German Captain Robert Hoffman. In the crew were several Jews. At San Jose, Guatemala, two of the crew jumped ship, got passage back to Los Angeles, where they were promptly arrested last week on a radioed complaint for "resisting the officers of an American vessel [mutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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