Word: rian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...editor of the Saturday Evening Post from 1920 to 1934. Handsome, well-printed on slick paper, illustrated with color, filled with stories, articles and poems by Rupert Hughes, Lucian Cary, Leonard Nason, Lois Montross, Frederick Irving Anderson, William Hazlett Upson, Valentine Williams, Albert Payson Terhune, Wallace Irwin, Jack Dempsey, Rian James, Gilbert Seldes, American Cavalcade looks the way a good issue of the Saturday Evening Post might look if waste wordage were squeezed out, advertising omitted, the magazine compressed to pocket size...
...White Parade (Fox). Dedicated to the memory of Florence Nightingale, this picture makes a sincere effort not only to dramatize but to glorify the profession of nursing. That it fails to do the first may be because Rian James's story, covering the entire training period of a probationary nurse, seems more like a sentimental prospectus than a moving picture. That it fails to do the second may be because pictures like Night Nurse, Life Begins, Registered Nurse have already acquainted the cinema public with the notion that a pretty girl in a nurse's uniform...
...Presidential pen dismissed famed Manhattan Lawyer Thomas L. Chadbourne, author of the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction from his post as President of the Cuban Na tional Sugar Exporting Corp. (see p. 48). Official reason: "Mr. Chadbourne is a foreigner." Scratch-Surgeon Grau signed an agra rian decree bestowing on every "indigent farmer" in Cuba 33 acres of land, a yoke of oxen, a cow, a plow, some seed and tax exemption for two years. Scratch, scratch, scratch-the President's pen flew over other decrees of a "Cuba for the Cubans" tone. Already approved...
Married. James H. Roper, engineer, eldest son of Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper; and Elizabeth May Armstrong, high school librarian of San Leandro, Calif.; in San Francisco. Few weeks ago police were sent to investigate Engineer Roper's presence in Libra rian Armstrong's home by Mrs. Evelyn Aylesworth, head of the Physics Department at Mills (Oakland Women's College). Mrs. Aylesworth said that she, not Librarian Armstrong, was Engineer Roper's No. 1 fiancee...
SOME CALL IT LOVE-Rian James -King ($2). The gentle passion among Manhattan racketeers...