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After an announcement by excitable Samuel Goldwyn that he had abandoned Raffles so that Actor David Niven could rejoin the Highland Light Infantry, work on Raffles was hastily resumed when the British Consulate in Los Angeles thought that Actor Niven would not be needed for at least 30 days. Only other Britishers on the active reserve list (liable to immediate call) were John Loder, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and the Earl of Warwick, whose Hollywood name is Michael Brooke. Only volunteer to turn up at the Consulate was Actor Alan Mowbray, 43, who was put to work listing other British subjects...
Mild, professorial Brazilla Carrol Reece, Republican Representative from Tennessee, World War hero, disembarked in Los Angeles from the Matson liner Matsonia, leaving his wife and daughter on board. When he tried to rejoin them, a pier guard at the gang plank refused to let him pass. At that Hero Reece grappled with the guard, bit his ear good & proper...
...last fortnight Bob Riskin, weary of the constant harangues that working for Mr. Goldwyn entails, threw up his contract, this week sailed for Europe. Last week Frank Capra, completing Mr. Smith Goes to Washington under his Columbia contract, announced that, instead of signing another, he would rejoin Riskin in the fall as Frank Capra Productions, Inc. Since high-powered Screenwriters Gene Towne and Graham Baker have also set up shop for themselves this year (TIME, May 29), Hollywood saw a Trend. Though the Capra-Riskin production plans remained their secret, neither they nor anyone else thought they would have much...
...string, showed itself ready & willing to make a neat bundle: itself, the Presbyterian Church of the U. S. (Southern) and the Protestant Episcopal Church. Aggregate membership of this big bundle: about 4,500,000. The Assembly formally invited the Southern Church, split off by slavery in 1861, to rejoin it. It approved a concordat, drawn up last year by Presbyterian and Episcopal commissions, for cooperation between the two churches, beginning in local congregations (TIME, Feb. 6). As Moderator of the Presbyterian Church the Assembly elected a man from the foreign mission field, where the urge toward church unity is strongest...
Soon Woll & Co.-who would hardly welcome Mr. Whitney as a boss-had to reverse themselves and consider the Lewis proposal seriously. Franklin Roosevelt startled them with the news that Teamster Dan Tobin had agreed to rejoin their committee. Having first refused to serve as an A. F. of L. negotiator because he thought William Green's terms precluded peace (TIME, March 13), Dan Tobin returned 'to the committee in effect as a representative of Franklin Roosevelt, giving C. I. 0. a friend on A. F. of L.'s side of the table...