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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Superior Court in Los Angeles, Producer Harry Joe Brown (Ceiling Zero) was sued for $49,954 (10% of his earnings for the past two years and of his hypothetical earnings for the next two) by the high-powered talent agency of Myron Selznick & Co., which claimed that it got Producer Brown his $2,250-a-week-and-up contract with 20th Century-Fox. Ordinarily for a talent agent to sue a producer would be comparable to a camp follower giving a general the hotfoot. Last week's suit was one more proof that the hotfoot is Agent Myron Selznick...
...game in the 18903. Finalist McDaniel, a pug-nosed, shy Californian, is the Bobby Riggs of Negro tennis. Freshman at Xavier (Negro) University, he has just reached top rank this year. Today his admirers think he can beat Bobby Riggs, but once, when they were both students at Los Angeles high schools, Jimmy was beaten by Bobby (7-5) 13-11) in an interscholastic tournament...
When cocky young Cinemactor Mickey Rooney left Los Angeles last fortnight for an eastern personal appearance tour, among the crowd that saw him off at the station was a wrinkle-faced, red-mopped little man who looked enough like Mickey Rooney to be his father. Soon the news got around that he was. Asked for his autograph, Comedian Joe Yule, at 44 the veteran of 36 years on the professional stage, smilingly consented. Said he: "It's the first time anybody ever asked...
...billed as Mickey McGuire. Divorced from Mickey's mother twelve years ago, Joe Yule married Dancer Leato Hullinger, kept his song-&-dance act going as long as vaudeville. Seven years ago he turned up for a two-week engagement as featured comic at the Follies Theatre, a Los Angeles burlesque house which caters to the sailor trade. He has been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey into the films. A good friend of Mickey and his mother, nowadays "the old man" is often invited to swim and ride on their swank San Fernando Valley...
Cats may look at kings, but extras rarely criticize producers. Recently, however, Manila's Philippines Free Press carried a disturbing communication from one of the 1,000 members of Los Angeles' Filipino colony who have been working on Producer Samuel Goldwyn's $2,000,000 epic of the Philippine pacification, The Real Glory. "This Hollywood idea," railed Mr. Goldwyn's Filipino, "of 60 Filipino soldiers being made to cower and shrink by one Juramentado [a Moro fanatic who expects heavenly reward in proportion to the number of Christians he kills] appears to some...