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...people's taste is pretty good, Proven Pictures' president says. They go for historical pictures, clean comedy, and musicals; they frown on Westerns, G-man pictures, and violent death in any from. Their favorite comedians are the Ritzes; for sheer drama they prefer Paul Muni and Barbara Stanwyck. But Jeanette MacDonald's "Naughty Marietta" holds the record; it has come back fifteen times...
Allan Hancock was the browbeaten son of an overbearing dowager who made him house his wife in the back yard of her vast Los Angeles estate. In 1925 he lost his only son, Bertram, in the Santa Barbara earthquake. He turned to mechanics, playing engineer at the throttle of his Santa Maria Valley Railroad engines; to aeronautics, learning to fly and fostering the Hancock Foundation College of Aeronautics in Santa Maria; to music, with serious and successful study of the cello; to yachting, with what has become a formidable interest in marine biology...
...along to Producer Goldwyn. First loud stunt of the Goldwyn staff was to trumpet an invitation to young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, kidnapper of Chiang Kaishek, to lead Kublai Khan's cohorts. When Producer Goldwyn, who had discovered Actor Cooper over a decade before (The Winning of Barbara Worth), lured him back from Paramount to play Marco, Paramount helpfully hollered bloody murder, sued unsuccessfully for $5,000,000. When the astronomical Paramount suit sputtered out, the Goldwyn staff tried one more impertinent plug. They wired Egypt's Washington minister for "rates and conditions" for posting their bills...
Eugene H. Nickerson of St. Marks and New York has been appointed first assistant, Rodman Townsend of St. Marks and New York and H. Bradley Jones of Milton Academy and Santa Barbara second assistants...
...appointment of the counselor for this semester and next year was made possible by gifts from Dr. Marian O. Hooker of Santa Barbara, California, Garrett W. McEnerney of San Francisco, Calif., and an anonymous donor...