Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line of Hollywood's British players, put on a full hour of British-accented heigh-ho. Cissie Loftus sang My Old Dutch, Vivien Leigh and Basil Rathbone recited from the Brownings; and Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Nigel Bruce and C. Aubrey Smith O. B. E. sang Three Little Fishies (see p. 47). Having thus offered Their Majesties some idea of the state of the Empire in Hollywood, the gathering, 44 strong, responded to a champagne toast proposed by U. S.-born Play Actor George M. Cohan. Listeners heard no pops or gurgles, only the punctilious tinkles as the toasters smashed...
Married. Marion Houghton Hepburn, sister of Actress Katharine Hepburn (see p. 40); and Ellsworth Strong Grant; in West Hartford, Conn. Among the bridesmaids: Sister Katharine...
Died. Raymond Orteig, 69, restaurateur and airmen's angel; after long illness; in Manhattan. Stirred by Alcock & Brown's transatlantic flight (1919), he posted a $25,000 purse for the first non-stop New York-Paris flight. Six fliers lost their lives before Charles A. Lindbergh (see...
Last week, thirteen days before the Yale-Harvard race, Cartoonist Caniff received a wire. Even though The Dragon Lady had been to Yale, could Harvard have her picture for the boathouse? Cartoonist Caniff-who went to Ohio State-rushed it off (see cut). Yale had not been heard from at week...
...printing letters from readers who tell us how lousy our magazine is"). The back cover, an "acquaintance maker," says: "Yoo hoo! How's about a date tonight? (All you have to do is take a seat opposite a pretty girl and hold the magazine so that she can see this...