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College has always been as necessary to Hal Kemp, North Carolina '26, as a pair of rubbers to an elderly professor of Greek. An Alabaman nearing his 33rd year, he organized his first dance orchestra at the University of North Carolina about 15 years ago. That band would play anywhere for $32.50 an evening. Skinnay Ennis, Saxie Dowell and Ben Williams were in that band. It won a college dance-orchestra contest sponsored by a vaudeville circuit, played before the Prince of Wales in England as a prize, and from then on it was "varsity...
...family is like that. We are given freedom to live, with no interference from anyone," the Premier's eldest son, Vittorio, 21, explained in San Francisco last week. There his partner, Hal Roach, in the new Roach and Mussolini cinema producing firm R.A.M. (TIME, Oct. 4), was sued last week for $30,000 by Dr. Renato Senise, the Italian who originally thought up the idea and brought Roach to Rome. In Hollywood, Messrs. Roach and Mussolini had been more & more embarrassed as fewer & fewer people came to their parties and the "20-day" instruction period young Mussolini...
...Major ones: Selznick International, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hal Roach...
...Hal Price Headley's Menow, with Charley Kurtsinger up: the $76,000 Belmont Futurity, world's richest race for two-year-olds; in 1 min., 15 1/5 sec., to set a new world's record for 61 furlongs; with Tiger and Fighting Fox in a photograph finish four lengths behind; before a closing day crowd of 30,000; at Belmont Park, N. Y. To home-bred Menow, who has won only three races in six starts this season, last week's victory brought $56,800 to make him leading juvenile money-winner with a total...
...year, but that was small pumpkins compared to this. Silver plaques and cash prizes ($10-$2.50) were awarded in four classes: culinary art, art work, needlework and miscellaneous crafts. Judges included President Jonas Lie of the National Academy of Design, McClelland Barclay, George Biddle. Arthur William Brown. Dean Cornwall. Hal Phyfe. Most striking fact about the watercolors. photographs, oils, drawings and caricatures of Waldorf workers was that virtually none of them bore any relation to the life of the hotel. Some of the prize winners...