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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Annette Erin O'Brien-Moore was born in Los Angeles in 1906, studied at St. Joseph's Convent in Tucson, planned to be a sculptor. At 15, she made her first appearance on the Manhattan stage. That she has not appeared in cinema before is partly due to the fact that in 1929 she was selected to play the young daughter in Street Scene. After 800 performances in Manhattan and London, she met Sam Goldwyn to discuss playing in the cinema version. They became so interested in how the picture should be made that they forgot to sign...
...steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi on which he and his family sailed round the world three years ago. Six other little sailboats made up the largest fleet ever entered in the California to Hawaii race since it was first sailed in 1908. They put out from Los Angeles Harbor on July 4, stood out across the Pacific in a light breeze...
...eight outstanding Methodist Episcopal issues, totaling $5,000,000, are currently in default. The one which pains him most is that of the California Missionary Society. To help pay for a Methodist Hospital in Los Angeles, the Society in booming 1928 had Bitting & Co. float a $600,000 bond issue. In 1931 the Society paid off $55,000 of the principal, in 1933 made one interest payment. Not one other cent has it paid. By July 1, 1934 it had defaulted $67,000 principal, $59,950 interest...
...Methodist women could not afford to pay, Bondman Bitting might be less bitter. But four trips to Los Angeles have convinced him otherwise. At its annual meeting last year, he discovered, the California Society reported total receipts of $87,281. Of that, $35,371 went to National Headquarters in Ohio. Thence, presumably, it went to China. For its U. S. bondholders, Mr. Bitting was informed on his last trip, the Society had nothing, would promise nothing...
Engaged. Mildred Hall, 29, secretary to Mrs. Herbert Hoover; and Thomas Allen Campbell, 33, Los Angeles school teacher, son of onetime Governor of Arizona Thomas Edward Campbell...