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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Announced. Jon Hall (real name: Charles Locher, pronounced Lo-shay), 25, muscular, part-Tahitian cinemactor (Hurricane), second cousin of Hurricane's co-author James Norman Hall; to Frances Langford, 25, cinema singer (Palm Springs, Bom to Dance, Hollywood Hotel) who was a soprano until a tonsillectomy made her a contralto; in Prescott, Ariz.; secretly, fortnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 20, 1938 | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Among the spectators who saw him defeat Baby Arizmendi, onetime featherweight champion, at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field 22 months ago was Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Impressed, Singer Jolson agreed to lend his friend, Fight Manager Eddie Mead, $5,000 to buy Armstrong's contract. Under the management of Mead, Armstrong piled up 37 victories in a row, became the outstanding boxer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Armstrong v. Ross | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Engagement Reported. Horton Smith, 30, professional golfer; to Barbara Louise Bourne, 26, granddaughter of Singer Sewing Machine Co.'s late President Frederick Bourne; in Springfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...YOUR FACE BEFORE ME (Mildred Bailey; Vocalion). The Schwartz & Dietz ballad taken through darktown by the ablest white blues singer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: June Records | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Without apple-cheeked young Singer Deanna Durbin, Universal Pictures might have been far deeper in the red than its net loss (as of October 30) of $1,084,999 indicates. Next season Deanna will make three films of her studio's scheduled 40. Figuresome, French Danielle Darrieux (Mayerling) will appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prospectus | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

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