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Thousands of U. S. citizens claim an interest in the estate of a German-born surveyor named Jacob Baker who settled in Pennsylvania in 1765. Ruling version of the Baker saga is that Surveyor Baker, granted land in Philadelphia, leased it back for 100 years to the U. S. Government. Upon the land the Government built the Philadelphia Navy yards, post office, mint...
...such an individual were also the active editor of a magazine, it would be news. Next week will appear a new magazine boasting Lowell Thomas as editor. It is called Saga, "The Adventurers' Magazine." Issued for a few months last year as a pulp, Saga is to be resumed as a smooth-paper book, price 25?, containing 96 pages of thrills in story, and picture. Contrary to advance publicity, Lowell Thomas' editorship is purely honorary, a favor to his friend Albert Buranelli (brother of Writer Prosper Buranelli) who will publish Saga. Most of the editorial work is done...
Those words, written in Explorer Scott's diary not long before he perished in March 1912 on the Ross Ice Barrier, stirred Englishmen more than any triumphant saga would have done. They are engraved on the statue of Scott made by his widow and unveiled after the War in Devonport, the Devonshire town where he was born...
...four (Little Women, Flying Down to Rio, Wild Cargo, Morning Glory) were money-making hits. In charge of RKO's 50 forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little Minister') ; Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii; Irene Dunne and John Boles in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Brian Aherne and Ann Harding in The Fountain and Franci: Lederer in The Three Musketeers...
...Columbia production "Twentieth Century," at RKO Keith's this week, affords an excellent antidote for Divisional post mortems or a pleasing apertif for finals, as the case may be Based on the show hit "Napoleon of Broadway," this saga of the stage was dressed up to Hollywood style by Ben Heeht and Charles Mac Arthur who gave it new lines, exaggerated the heroic, and knew John Barrymore would have the lead. Unlike its predecessors of the "Shanghai Express" variety, "Twentieth Century" has no villains, bandits, or languishing females, but is graced with a frantic, egomaniae producer (John Barrymore), his irrepressive...