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When Margot Einstein was married to Dr. Dimitri Marianov at a Berlin registry office, her father, Physicist Albert Einstein, said that he would attend the ceremony if it could take place in 30 min. He attended in celluloid collar, battered hat, aged raincoat. Impatient when the nuptials took 60 min., he vigorously protested against being photographed. Then he hustled back to his soundproof study. Said his wife: "It was a case of love at first sight with our daughter. Dr. Marianov came to our house several months ago, and from that moment Margot's heart was lost. We think...
...heavy Teutonic program. Never before (the verdict was unanimous) had Britishers heard such a concert. Ten thousand cheered after each number. During the intermission the King called Toscanini to his box to congratulate him. And tall George Bernard Shaw, who sat throughout the concert wrapped in a raincoat, rushed up to the little Italian afterwards, almost crushed him in a great hug. Asked by newsmen for an opinion, Shaw said: "Any article by me on Toscanini would be worth...
They hired for the job Lewis Milestone, a chunky Russian who once worked in a raincoat factory; whose high character and uncompromising ability have made him notable among cinema directors. They hired to prepare the film manuscript Maxwell Anderson (What Price Glory, Saturday's Children) and George Abbott (Broadway, Coquette). These three sat down not to dramatize the book, but to translate it. Flouting formula they retained the spirit of the novel...
When he was 17 Director Louis Milestone ran away from the German school where his Russian parents had sent him, migrated to the U. S., got a job in a raincoat factory at $4 per week. Later he became handy man for a theatrical photographer, and learned more about photography in the U. S. Signal Corps during the War. The day before he was discharged he won $300 in the company craps game and while spending it on Broadway met a cinema producer who gave him a $20 job in his cutting room. He became cutting room editor, then wrote...
...Detroit, one Donald Henderson was arrested for passing a worthless check. He had with him a letter of thanks from President Hoover for a raincoat which Donald Henderson, one rainy day during the Golden Jubilee of Light, had removed from his back and loaned to the President...