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...evening before, rehearses dance steps by waving her feet in the air. After 45 minutes, she decides to get dressed. For breakfast she has fruit, cereal and a coddled egg. Her shiny Cadillac, with Chauffeur John Griffith at the wheel, is waiting in front of the Temples' Santa Monica house. In it she and her mother are whisked off to the Fox Studio. On the set Shirley is supervised by Mrs. Temple. She also does her lessons. Precocious, she has been held back as much as possible, but her I. Q. is that of a 9-year...
...upon (TIME, March 16). From the Air Transport Association of America's headquarters in Chicago, American, Eastern, Pan American, United and Transcontinental & Western Airlines announced they had abandoned competition in equipment, would collaborate in creating a standardized fleet of huge transport planes. To Douglas Aircraft Co. of Santa Monica, Calif., current darling of most of the world's leading airlines, went the contract to develop the new type transport...
...twin-motored, low-wing monoplane which revolutionized air transport the world over. The first commercial transport plane the 12-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. had ever built, it and the improved DC2 speedily lifted the company from insignificance to leadership. Simultaneously, the little Douglas factory at Santa Monica, Calif., grew into the world's largest airplane manufacturing plant...
...finds a pile of letters awaiting him, many in penny-halfpenny envelopes, addressed in a charming hand. Messrs. Cutthroat hope he will have a good term, and will be delighted to see him at their establishment as soon as he can call (lounge suits from eight guineas). Miss Monica Hipline wants to teach him to dance, Mr. Andrew McLewis wants to lend him money, all sorts of unknown friends are anxious of help him. "It's not your money we want," they say, "indeed, we will not mention the cost of these trifles; it's your help, your welfare, your...
Seven years ago Artist Wright went to the directors of the Santa Monica library, offered to paint murals in the reading room free as a memorial to his father. The offer was abruptly refused. Last year he made his offer again, provided that he be reimbursed for the cost of paints, canvas, white lead, etc. Regional PWA Director Merle W. Armitage headed a committee that raised $1,000, and last week the murals were up, 2,000 sq. ft. of them, in 38 panels...