Word: los
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, at the second-run Ritz Theatre in Los Angeles, audiences chuckled good-naturedly at Producer Buell's novelty horse opera, but only once did they really howl : when three-foot-nine Hero Billy Curtis, pursuing three-foot-nine villain Little Billy, galloped off on a black pony, was soon scooting along on a white pony, finished the chase on the black. Trouble with The Terror of Tiny Town, Producer Buell was soon to realize, was that without a few normal-sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell...
From sheer whimsicality, the mythical Greek giant Procrustes stretched short men out to fit a long bed. Eight years ago, Los Angeles' Dr. Alvia Brockway decided to try a scientific Procrustean operation on his patients, who, cured of infantile paralysis or tuberculosis of the hip, hobbled about with one leg shorter than the other. Last week he announced in California and Western Medicine that of 75 operations performed in the Orthopaedic Hospital, 90% were successful...
...national network. It also provides: a limit on rehearsal time (maximum 8 hours for a 60-minute broadcast); extra pay for rehearsal overtime; pay for auditions. The contract recognizes A. F. R. A. as exclusive bargaining agency for sustaining artists in the cities affected (New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco), establishes a modified closed shop.* guarantees that origination point of network programs will not be moved to cities not covered in the contract...
Married. Hephzibah Menuhin, 18, piano-playing sister of violin-playing Yehudi; to Lindsay Nicholas, 22-year-old Australian rancher and brother of Yehudi's bride of two months; with no music; at Los Gatos, Calif. Hephzibah was the third & last of the three Menuhins to wed, all in two months. Younger Sister Yaltah is married to Washington Attorney William Stix...
Divorced. Cinemactress Sigrid Gurie, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y.'s "Norwegian Garbo"; from Thomas W. Stewart; in Los Angeles, Calif. Grounds: "My husband slapped me, threatened to thrash me, and said he would lock me out of the house...