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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There to ride horseback, there also to work on future advertising layouts in his cinemagnificent home which contains marble floors and doors transplanted from Chicago's oldtime Palmer House. Onetime office-devil of his father's country newspaper at Lapeer, Mich., Adman Kudner has been a concert singer, police reporter, magazine contributor, versifier, political writer. Framed over his desk is his favorite definition of advertising, a quotation from Fred Patzel, 1926 World Champion Hog Caller: "You've got to have appeal as well as power in your voice. You've got to con-.vince the hogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curtis Plows In | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

...painting by John singer Sargent, made for the ceiling decorations of the rotunda of the Muscum of Fine Arts in Boston, and three preliminary drawings for the cartoon have been given to the School of Architecture by Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Fraucis Ormond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SARGENT WORKS ARE GIVEN TO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | 11/20/1930 | See Source »

...Eames, 34, actress (Declassee, Hedda Gabler, Candida, The Sacred Flame), onetime wife of Playwright Sidney Howard (she played in his Swords, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Silver Cord, Lucky Sam McCarver) ; after several operations; in London. She was a niece of Mme Emma Eames De Gogorza, famed opera singer, and of Mrs. Hiram Percy Maxim, wife of Silencer-inventor Maxim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 17, 1930 | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...Nightingale" of the Victorian Opera stage. Its best shots are the few that are definitely part of her history?the scenes at Castle Garden, and P. T. Barnum showing Miss Lind U. S. ballyhoo. Its main fault is that it sketches an amorous interlude in the life of a singer who was a notorious prig. Grace Moore, onetime musicomedy star, Metropolitan soprano, sings nicely and acts adequately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joy v. Monopoly | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

...Author. Of indefinite age but of immediately perceptible dimensions, Mae West resembles her prototype, the over stuffed houri of the '90s. On the stage since she was eight, she has been a hoofer, singer, weightlifter, can still support 500 Ibs. She writes her own plays, casts, stages, directs them, plays the star roles. When admitting to 27 years she wrote her first play, Sex, for which she was arrested and served ten days on Manhattan's Welfare Island. Of her other plays, Pleasure Man was closed by the police after 3 days' run in Manhattan. The Drag never reached Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fairy Tale Among Factories* | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

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