Word: ruben
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Compos-A-Tune was invented by Louis Ruben, a round-faced, bespectacled citizen of Bayonne, N.J. A disciple of the late Joseph Schillinger, Manhattan musicologist who believed symphonies might someday be manufactured by machinery, Ruben based his gadget on an analysis of more than 1,000 popular tunes...
Universal's Columnist Ruben Salazar Mallen observed: "Mexicans are guilty of letting Stokowski run over them. They have an inferiority complex. . . . Mexico and Stokowski are guilty." Famed Composer Carlos Chavez submitted that "it is sufficient to recall that the Mexican Symphony Orchestra has been functioning regularly -without disputes - for the last 16 years." Stokowski wrote an open letter of explanation to Mexico's President Avila Camacho...
Born. To Cinemactress Virginia Bruce and husband J. Walter Ruben, film director: a son, 6 Ib. 11 oz., their first child, her second; in Los Angeles. Her first, Susan Ann Gilbert, 8, is the daughter of the late John Gilbert. Married. Ruth Elizabeth McCormick, daughter of onetime Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms and the late Senator Medill McCormick, granddaughter of the late President-maker Mark Hanna; and Maxwell Peter Miller Jr. of Rockford, Ill.; near Rockford...
Ringside Maisie is the fifth of M.G.M.'s Maisie series. The first (Maisie) was bought for Jean Harlow, shelved when she died. Miss Sothern got the part two years ago because she was inexpensive and because she looked to Producer J. Walter Ruben like what he was looking for. Result: a fiscal triumph for M.G.M., stardom for Ann Sothern...
...Broadway musical Smiles, played innumerable simpering glamor-girl parts for Columbia and RKO, in 1937 was out of work. Nice handling of a part as a dumb stenographer in Trade Winds, after a year's separation from the cinema, brought her to the attention of Producer Ruben...