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Ballerina Vera Zorina (real name: Eva Brigitta Hartwig), nimble-limbed star of I Married an Angel, announced that on her forthcoming trip to Europe she hopes to spend much of the time in the nude. In Chicago she has ordered a is-ft. canvas roof enclosure, on the Normandie a private sundeck. Said she: "It [sun bathing] has been wonderful for my health. My only difficulty [in Hollywood] has been with a nasty man in a red airplane...
...years later an angel named Moroni appeared to Joe. Introducing himself as one from the lost tribes who had emigrated to South America 600 years before Christ, Moroni told Joe the location of a set of golden plates in a cave near Palmyra. With them would be found a code key, or Urim and Thummim. Four years later, Joe, a giant weighing almost 200, began translating the plates.* He dictated to a schoolteacher named Oliver Cowdery. God, said Joe, had revealed that Cowdery was to put the revelations into fit English. To a prosperous farmer named Harris he transmitted...
...last week a gawky, sallow-faced man of 39 stood in the U. S. Immigration station on San Francisco's Angel Island and swore to tell the whole truth. Alfred Renton Bryant ("Harry") Bridges proceeded to tell more about himself than anyone had told before. Because he is the most potent and feared Laborite in the western U. S., Bridges on Bridges was bound to furnish 1) news, 2) insight into the innards of Leftist Labor...
London. Early this year beef-eating Yorkshireman John Boynton Priestley, author of best-selling novels (The Good Companions, Angel Pavement), several U. S. stage flops, one hit (Dangerous Corner), stood up to the almighty British Broadcasting Corp., calling it monopolistic and its programs a bore. Fortnight ago BBC commissioned a novel for serial broadcasting, 20 minutes every Sunday. Commissioned novelist: J. B. Priestley. The radio novel, Let the People Sing, was reported to be another cross-sectioning of British life like The Good Companions...
...Japanese steamer dropped its hook on the only public telephone cable to Angel Island, breaking the line and isolating the Bridges proceedings for a whole day. A telegraph operator grabbed a knife and went berserk in the room next to the trial chamber, had to be overpowered. Otherwise the performance went along quietly enough, covering ground familiar to reporters of the long, moot Bridges story...