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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oddities-of-the-month: Famed Guitarist Phil Lang's band v. Mozart on Counterpoint a la Mode (Brunswick); Joan Crawford, recorded for the first time, singing I'm In Love with the Honorable Mr. So and So (Victor...
...Last fall English Actor Robert Morley, unknown in the U. S., simultaneously achieved stage fame in the title role of Oscar Wilde, cinema fame as Louis XVI in Marie Antoinette. Last month English Actor Lawrence Olivier, no great name in the U. S., simultaneously achieved stage fame playing opposite Katharine Cornell in No Time for Comedy, cinema fame as Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. Unlike Morley, Olivier became a terrific matinee idol to boot...
...consulted. Last week the San Francisco Chronicle published a "Guard's-Eye View of the Arts" by one who was not consulted but spoke up anyway. He was 26-year-old Worth Graham Seymour, a rolling stone reporter, seaman and law student who has worked for the last month in the Palace of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Fair...
...affect its weather. Last week he announced finding a new short cycle of 16 days. This is closely correlated with wide temperature swings on earth - swings of 15 and even 25°. The pattern of temperature change following the 16-day cycle varies from place to place and from month to month, but Dr. Abbot believes that the value of 16-day temperature prediction to industry and agriculture would be well worth the trouble and expense of making month-by-month prediction charts for each interested locality...
...look so hot. When they were made, industrial production stood at 104. In January it slid to 101, in February and March to 98. In April, while it continued on its way down, Colonel Ayres's latest analysis stubbornly laid down conditions for recovery "to continue." A month before Joe Kennedy spoke, the Dow Jones stock averages had reached a 1938 high of 158.41, but last week they were about halfway back to their 1938 low of 98.95. Ambassador Kennedy was saying nothing (for publication) about stock prices...