Word: leos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Love Affair (RKO Radio). Leo Mc-Carey, who directed this picture, is one of Los Angeles' few major contributions to the cinema industry's personnel. Son of a sports promoter named Thomas ("Uncle Tom") McCarey, he went to U. S. C., studied law, played on the rugby team. After college, Leo McCarey tried work in a San Francisco law office, quit to tour the Orpheum circuit as a boxer, did pick-&-shovel work in Montana mines, returned to Hollywood, where a chance meeting with Director Tod Browning got him into the cinema industry. That...
...Stewart's first wife, Beatrice Ames, married (1938) Count Ilya Tolstoy, grandson of the late great Leo Tolstoy...
...years, ago, in Milan, Italy, a new weekly magazine called Omnibus appeared. Skillfully edited by Leo Longanesi, 33-year-old Fascist journalist, it printed political articles, photographs of pretty women and, as its specialty, the fiction of such little-known foreigners as Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell. Italy's best magazine, Omnibus quickly became its most popular as well, with readers clamoring for more & more contemporary U.S. authors...
...accompanied by riotous lack of discipline, and its completion was the signal for two of the liveliest Hollywood parties of the season, one given by Edgar John Bergen for the whole cast, and the other by the Masquers Club in honor of Mr. Fields. At the latter, Dr. Leo Rosten, making a Carnegie Corporation survey of the cinema industry, paid touching tribute to the guest of honor: "Any man who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad." Not the least astonishing thing about You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is that it is almost...
Last week when FDIChairman Leo Crowley announced that $17,000,000 of the $21,500,000 loss was completely covered, that another million consisted of uninvested trust funds that were fully secured, Jersey City knew it had only a stomachache, not appendicitis...