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...dancing nimbly and singing huskily since she won a Charleston contest in Texas at 16. In vaudeville she called herself "The Original John Held Jr. Girl" although she had never met or posed for that artist. Playing on Broadway in Top Speed and Girl Crazy, she got a cinema contract because Hollywood liked the way she kept repeating "Cigaret me, big boy!" in Young Man of Manhattan. She plays expert ping-pong, likes to speak pig-Latin, dislikes exhibiting her feet. We're Not Dressing (Paramount). This picture may suggest tremendous new possibilities to producers. Stranded on a desert...
...steelmaster's hero for his embattled stand against the labor provision of the Street Code, Chairman Weir was also glad last week when Secretary Ickes approved a contract of $47,402.89 let to National's subsidary Weirton by New York Central R. R. for spikes and tie plates. Pending in a Wilmington, Del. Federal court is the Government's action against Weirton for violation of the labor section of the National Industrial Recovery...
...Stand Up and Cheer from a group of 200 child actresses who answered a general call. She had already learned to sing by imitating radio crooners. She learned most of her tap-dancing in three weeks on the Fox lot. Blonde and pretty, Shirley Temple signed her own contract with...
Glenn Martin's fancy flying was done for the sole purpose of financing further experimentation. By 1912 he had a plane factory running full blast, and a year later received his first Government contract. In 1918 came the first of the famed twin-engine Martin bombers and since then he has built hundreds of Army & Navy planes. The Martin which won the Collier Trophy in 1933 cruises at 200 m.p.h. with two tons of bombs in its belly. Before the House Naval Affairs Committee in Washington last winter Glenn Martin testified that he had done...
...aviation preclude bulging surpluses. In 1927 and 1928 Martin reported annual profits of about $500,000 but in 1932 the company just broke even, last year lost $140,000. Martin entered this year with some $3,300,000 of business on the books, largely made up of an Army contract for 48 new bombers and an order for three of the six huge flying boats for Pan American Airways (TIME, June...