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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, a more notable reopening occurred near Los Angeles, where Northrop aircraft, subsidiary of big Douglas Aircraft, operated again after a seven-week strike. President Donald Douglas had also declared that he was through, and followed up by revealing that the Army had refused to accept delivery of Northrop fighting planes because of "indicated sabotage...
Word spread through Los Angeles fortnight ago that the city's Art Association was soon to open an ultra-select exhibit of International Art, to whose vernissage none but California's double thick social cream would be invited. One day last week the invited cream, 2,000 strong, flowed fatly to the intimate opening. They came from parties given by such art-lovers as Norma Shearer and Mrs. Randolph Huntington Miner and jostled, perspired, stared at each other instead of at the pictures. After the first day, the milk of the citizenry to the number...
...only the swankest art show Los Angeles had ever had, but the biggest. Some of the numerous masterpieces on view were lent by Connoisseurs Marion Davies, Sam Katz and Edward G. Robinson. Gilt-edged treasures included: two Titians, three Tintorettos, two Rembrandts, four Reynolds, such old favorites as Millet's Man With a Hoe, such modern equivalents of September Morn as Duchamp's Nude Descending the Stairs. So great a glut of masterpieces overtaxed the capacity of the Art Association's gallery (an annex to the Town House on Wilshire Boulevard, originally built for San Francisco...
...Wealthy real-estate promoter, chamber of commerce leader, largely instrumental in getting the 1932 Olympic Games for Los Angeles...
...Los Angeles, Lois and Louise Coats, 24, identical twins, last October obtained interlocutory divorce decrees from two marines, Ray and Roy Sebring, identical twins. In December, Twins Coats married Herbert and Hubert Sharp, identical twins. Last fortnight Twins Coats obtained twin annulments from Twins Sharp on grounds that they married before their divorces were final, announced they would meet Twins Sebring in Bremerton, Wash., when they returned from duty in Honolulu, would remarry Twins Sebring, would set out on twin honeymoons to Twins Sebring's and Twins Coats' home town Oneida...