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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Curly Top (Fox). Elizabeth Blair (Shirley Temple) and her sister Mary (Rochelle Hudson), inmates at the Lakeside Orphanage, so endear themselves to the richest member (John Boles) of the board of trustees that he decides to relieve the tedium of a summer at Southampton with his good-humored elderly aunt by adopting them. Little Elizabeth's diversions of frolicking about with her pony and duck, teasing the English butler, dancing and singing in amateur theatricals are thereafter interrupted only once. This is when her older sister and her guardian, being too inhibited to confess their love for each other...
When he arrived in Amsterdam, the young painter was a burly bachelor with a gay, stubborn face, a sociable manner. One of his first jobs was The Anatomy Lesson, for Dr. Tulp, an impressively theatrical work. He promptly became Amsterdam's most popular and richest painter. His portraits of that time were, comparatively, the emptiest he ever did. He spent money hand over fist, on tapes tries and brocades, on good living and on the paintings of his contemporaries. He frequently opened the bidding with a price three times what any Dutch burgher ever paid for a picture...
...Indian mestizos who rule Mexico love nothing so much as a mural full of anti-capitalist symbolism, though they themselves number some of the richest men in North America. Last year they had Diego Rivera repaint in Mexico City's pink-domed National Theatre the magnificent fresco mural the Rockefellers had ordered out of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933, et seq.). Last week the world's biggest mural project was being smeared across the walls and ceilings of Mexico City's vasty Abelardo Rodriguez Market by nine youthful painters, the eldest little more...
...most unlikely that, in his second season as a racehorse owner. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt will fail to be the most successful one in the U. S. Last week, on the day Discovery was winning at Empire City, Vanderbilt horses ran second and third in the Lassie Stakes (richest race for fillies in the U. S.). at Arlington Park, Chicago, first and second in the Massasoit Handicap at Boston's brand new Suffolk Downs. The day's winnings...
Tipped off before the bidless box was opened, Premier Hepburn hopped back to Toronto by plane from the bush, where he had been fishing with-of all people- President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines (gold), "richest bachelor in Canada," and Manhattan's legendary speculator, Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, who is called a "money magnate'' in the Dominion Press. The Government's counter attack was planned at Jack Bickell's home located at Port Credit. "The financial interests undertook to discipline the Government of Ontario because of its stand on the power purchase...