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...smallest star (5 ft.) on the U. S. stage has one of the longest tempers, rarely permits herself a more violent expression of dissatisfaction than her characteristic "Pe-ew!" But last week Helen Hayes was feeling particularly good. There were the White Blouse invitations. ("To think, here I was born in Washington and never imagined I could get in the White House back door!") And, with a pair of noteworthy Queens already in her hand, she was reasonably sure of drawing three of a kind on Broadway this week...
...swirling snowstorm, a number of cinema folk stepped off a train one day last week in Callander. Ont. to begin location work on a picture involving Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe and the five smallest daughters of Oliva and Elzire Dionne. From the Twentieth Century-Fox lot in Hollywood Producer Darryl Zanuck had sent 22 technicians and cameramen, Director Henry King, Actor Jean Hersholt, Actress Dorothy Peterson, Writers Sonya Levien and Charles Blake...
TIME'S comparison (Oct. 21, p. 56) of a ripe human ovum with a pinhead gives an inadequate concept of the true size of this interesting cell. Actually its diameter is but 1/200 in. This is about the size of the smallest grain of sand that could be seen with the unaided eye. Stated differently, a sphere having the diameter of a common pinhead (1/12 in.) possesses nearly 4,000 times the volume of a human egg. One can compute further that all the eggs needed to replace the present population of the world could be held...
...tent show before taking a small Broadway part in The Second Man. A one-night Hollywood performance in No More Ladies led to an M-G-M contract. She is a collector of first editions of children's books, reasonably good at fashionable sports and lives in the smallest house (living room, bedroom, bath) in Beverly Hills. Afflicted by chronic insomnia and aware that she will not be able to sleep until dawn, she employs every decorous reason she can invent to detain guests. In Rendezvous, she had three duplicates of all dresses and shoes to avoid delays...
...returns came in Reform Conservative Stevens was seen to have split and disorganized his party's vote, turning the expected defeat of Premier Bennett & friends into a massacre which left the Conservatives this week with the smallest representation they have had in the history of the Dominion...