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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brooklyn, N...
These spirited messages unfortunately did little to stimulate the government's militia, largely composed of ill-trained, ill-disciplined shoemakers, cabdrivers and waiters who were only prevented from scattering in despair by their officers standing behind them with cocked firearms. At San Martín-de-Val de Inglesias, 7,000 Reds vainly attempted to repulse 1,000 Whites, made it easy for White Generalissimo Francisco Franco's armies to resume their march on Madrid...
Unable to sell it for $750, the owners razed the boyhood home near New Hope, N. Y. of Millard Fillmore, 13th and least-appreciated U. S. President...
Injured when his automobile upset near Three Rivers, N. Mex., was Cattleman Robert Kleberg Jr., whose famed Santa Gertrudis ranch covers 1,250,000 acres, fronts on the Gulf of Mexico for 80 miles. Before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers at Rochester, N. Y., Board Chairman Merlin Hall Aylesworth of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. demanded higher cinema admission prices, declared: "The wasteful, injurious practice . . . of giving away one Grade A picture with one Grade B picture is like eating too much ice cream at one time." Stricken in Hollywood with bronchial pneumonia lay Cinemactress Norma Shearer, widow of famed...
Consensus on the first play of the Guild's 19th subscription season seemed to be that the Twins Epstein could write dialog as witty as S. N. Behrman's, but were inferior to that oldtime Guild playwright when it came to the passages intended to convey deep social significance. A minority, not impressed by either Behrman's or the Epsteins' parlor politics, was inclined to call honors about even...