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...American Museum's consistent increase of attendance is unique among U. S. museums of natural history. In 1933 Chicago's Field Museum took care of 3,269,300, last year 1,191,437. In 1933 Los Angeles' Museum of History, Science & Art attendance was 1,276,911, last year 597,079. It and other museums attribute their peak popularity to Depression when free entertainment and shelter attracted full houses. This year attendance is generally increasing, apparently due to new interests which museum directors are stirring in their communities. And every new interest stirs a hope for gifts...
...realism of Kid Galahad was achieved not by hiring a real fighter to perform in it, as Max Baer did in The Prizefighter and the Lady, but by giving a course in pugilism to the unknown young Los Angeles actor who had been picked for the title role. Handsome Wayne Morris, 23, whose athletic activities at Los Angeles Junior College (see p. 44) had been confined to football, basketball and fencing, trained for a month before shooting started. In the picture, his fight for the heavyweight championship was far more strenuous than most real heavyweight contests. It lasted a week...
Tumbling out of their classrooms and onto their campus ashiver with excitement one day last week went all the 500 boys and girls of Los Angeles Junior College. The college faculty gathered to watch from a porch. Facing each other on the grass stood sturdy, curly-headed Student Robert Cousineau and wiry Student Harold Bauer, each stripped to the waist and each armed with a sword. As the excited audience chattered and peered, cameramen recorded the scene and newshawks watched intently. With full faculty approval, a duel was about to be fought. When Students Cousineau and Bauer finished posing, they...
Moving spirit of this extraordinary performance, which was claimed to have drawn "the first blood ever intentionally shed by U. S. college fencers," was Los Angeles Junior's lively Fencing Coach John Tatum, who exulted: "We have been trying to arrange an affair like this for three years to popularize fencing." The college publicity department had timed it to coincide with a campus dance. Nothing was at stake except Student Bauer's desire for the No. 2 rating on the fencing team, which Student Cousineau enjoyed by virtue of his showing in the Pacific Coast fencing tournament last...
...impersonations of Marouf, the cobbler who runs away from his nagging wife, pretends to be a rich merchant, makes a monkey of the Sultan of Khaitan and marries the Sultan's daughter. Chamlee first took the part nine years ago at Ravinia Park (Chicago), later in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Lille and Brussels. When he arrived to sing his first Marouf in Paris, Composer Rabaud kept him up till 3 a.m. going over the score, called him a "delicious interpreter...