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...brightest Pinks, Jimmy Cagney's public deeds have been nothing more daring than an occasional contribution to strikers and active leadership in the Screen Actors' Guild. But last week he and such other notably social-conscious cinemactors as Fredric March, Chester Morris, Franchot Tone, Joan Crawford, Jean Muir and Edward Arnold were debating something really big-a strike of the Guild which would shut every film studio down tight. While a committee headed by President Robert Montgomery negotiated the Guild's demands with representatives of producers, a hundred or more stars gathered nightly at the homes...
...gold strike coincided with the birth, Oakhurst called the baby "Luck" (Virginia Weidler). His whim of allowing her, at 10, the status of a poker dealer in his place brought him into conflict with Poker Flat's better elements, Rev. Samuel Wood (Van Heflin) and Schoolteacher Helen (Jean Muir). John Oakhurst tried for Helen's sake to change his principles, but the effort was not proof against an invitation to a shooting match. His successful duel with a prospector prompted the Vigilantes to a civic purge. Head of a little group of outcast reprobates, marooned in a Sierra...
...Insignificance. As an official visit without any official purpose, Lord Tweeds-muir's stop in Washington was a kaleidoscope of glittering but insignificant formalities. The Governor-General had come with his aides-de-camp and his wife with her lady-in-waiting, Mrs. George Pape. They were met at the Canadian border by Richard Southgate, chief of the State Department's Division of Protocol, and by additional military and naval aides supplied by the U. S. They were met again at Washington's Union Station by Secretary of State Hull, by the U. S. Minister to Canada...
Hollister (Y) defeated R. M. Dorson '37 (H), 3-1; Berry (Y) defeated A. W. Sulloway '38 (H), 3-1; J. C. Develin '38 (H) defeated Muir (Y), 3-1; Cookman (Y) defeated D. E. Burbank '37 (H), 3-2; G. B. Blake '39 (H) defeated Auchincloss (Y), 3-1; Culcroft (Y) defeated D. F. Keyes '37 (H), 3-1; Kerr (Y) defeated R. O. Easton '37 (H); 3-1; Bates (Y) defeated C. S. Oakman Jr. '38 (H), 3-2; H, De Kruif '38 (H) defeated Brooke...
...while bearded Chris Jorgensen, a capable, conservative, never exciting painter, covered acres of canvas with views of Yosemite Falls, the Half Dome, El Capitan and the rest of the valley's wonders. The Jorgensens became fast friends of the valley's best-known inhabitant, bearded Naturalist John Muir. In 1903 when Theodore Roosevelt visited the valley he outraged the inhabitants by turning down an elaborate reception to eat flap jacks over a campfire with Naturalist Muir and Painter Jorgensen...