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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Ellen Wilson McAdoo de Onate, 22 (who last April was divorced from Spanish Cinemactor Rafael Lopez de Onate), fourth of the five daughters of California's Senator William Gibbs McAdoo (see p. 25) by the first two of his three wives; to William A. Hinshaw, 22, French horn player for the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 12, 1938 | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Cinemactor Scott's long upper lip and narrow eyes tend to give him the look of an uncouth frontier bumpkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

...Texans, Scott is found in better company than usual, with Joan Bennett as a belle of post-Civil War Texas, and May Robson as her doting grandmother, for his chief associates. The terrain, however, is far more suitable for coyotes than for foxes, and Cinemactor Scott's closest approach to the atmosphere to which he is accustomed in his private life is supplied by a herd of 10,000 snuffling beef cattle which he and Miss Bennett drive up the Chisholm Trail, from the Rio Grande to Kansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Because he liked to sleep late, Cinemactor Lee Tracy used to tip thoughtful cinema hands who saw to it that "I wasn't called to the studio when I wasn't needed." Because he considered such tipping a business expense, Mr. Tracy deducted $161 from his income tax. Because it did not care how late Mr. Tracy slept, the Internal Revenue Bureau last week refused to allow the deduction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 15, 1938 | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Some months ago in a Hollywood café, a prospector let Cinemactor Errol Flynn fondle a gold nugget, sold Flynn on the idea of spending $17,000 to send him in a specially purchased plane to Alaska to work the claim. Last week Hollywood heard what happened: 1) the gold mine was a fake; 2) the prospector had flown the coop; 3) the smashed plane had to be abandoned; 4) Alaska had a newly christened peak. Name: "Flynn's Folly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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