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...spare moments Betty made house-to-house calls soliciting carpentry for her idle father. Other times she led her trio to nearby movie studios, pestering receptionists in the front office for auditions. Last June when Director Wood heard them, he quickly signed Betty for Rangers. Betty's sincere, naïve, yet strangely adult mind has made her as popular as the paymaster on the Paramount, lot, brought her a seven-year contract which now pays $100 weekly. She supports her family in a small whitewashed bunga low, responds to frequent touches by broke friends and relations. Her greatest...
...truculent crowd among the Internationals - the Communist diehards. Politi cal opacity makes him bat around franti cally trying to rationalize the Russian Purge when it begins to disrupt the Inter national Brigades, leads him to an ac quiescence that would be dishonest if it were not merely smug and na...
...play Jane Peyton, Director Lloyd chose Newcomer Martha Scott, whose only previous movie assignment was the naïve New England schoolgirl in Our Town. The daughter of a Gee's Creek. Mo. electrical engineer, Martha's brief movie record belies her acting experience, which began in Kansas City at the age of "about twelve or so" when she took up public speaking and dramatics to overcome an inferiority complex. She went to the University of Michigan to study teaching, received...
...played their part in the 1928 election, other things helped to defeat Smith: many a Southern voter turned thumbs down on liquor, on Tammany, on Manhattan's East Side, on New York City domination in general. The States that went for Hoover in 1928 were not the politically naïve backwoods regions that might have been expected to fear the Pope's shadow. They were North Carolina, Florida, Tennessee, Virginia, Oklahoma, Texas-which have their share of hillbillies but also, politically and industrially, harbor many of the South's most sophisticated areas...
...issue of the British journal Na ture which reached the U. S. last week, a new approach to absolute zero, suggested by several investigators, was explained by Dr. Charles Galton Darwin. He is the calm, pipe-smoking director of the Na tional Physical Laboratory, grandson of Evolution's great Charles Darwin. In effect the method is to work down as far as possible with the magnetism of molecules, then continue with the magnetism in the nuclei (cores) of the atoms themselves. In this way, researchers can plausibly expect to get down to one hundred-thousandth, possibly to one millionth...