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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Announced. Jon Hall (real name: Charles Locher, pronounced Lo-shay), 25, muscular, part-Tahitian cinemactor (Hurricane), second cousin of Hurricane's co-author James Norman Hall; to Frances Langford, 25, cinema singer (Palm Springs, Bom to Dance, Hollywood Hotel) who was a soprano until a tonsillectomy made her a contralto; in Prescott, Ariz.; secretly, fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...Hall (real name Charles Locher), 24, was known as "Terutevaegiai" (young white god on Heaven's highest shelf) by the Tahitians with whom he paddled outrigger canoes, rode surf boards, and whom he defeated in the all-island swimming championship of 1926. His father, Felix Locher, onetime resident of Tahiti, is now a Los Angeles insurance broker. Hall is a second cousin by marriage to Hurricane's coauthor, James Norman Hall. His well-distributed 190-lb. frame enabled him to win fame as a track star and ski-jumper when he left Tahiti to go to school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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