Word: talladega
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gertrude Michael is a Talladega, Ala. girl who used to run a radio station in her hometown, giving household hints and calisthenics in the morning, economic lectures and piano recitals in the afternoon and in the evening singing ballads and playing the violin. She had equipped herself for this career by studies at University of Alabama and Converse College. Later she got into enough Broadway plays to inter est M-G-M in testing her and arrived in Hollywood with two suitcases, expecting to stay a fortnight. She has never been back, either to Broadway or Talladega...
...known as a clever postprandial speaker. He has delivered several sermons in Philadelphia churches. He possesses an excellent bass-baritone, has gone on tours singing Negro songs, lecturing. His father was General Wager Swayne, Military Governor of Alabama after the Civil War and founder of Swayne Hall at Talladega, Ala., first Negro college in Alabama. His brother is Alfred Harris Swayne, vice president of General Motors Corp. Mr. Swayne became president of Burns Bros, less than two years ago. Since his election there has been warm strife between the company and certain stockholders seeking a receiver. Last week this group...