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...bickering because Erna prefers Wagner, Elizabeth Tchaikovsky. Daughters of a German mining engineer who arrived in the U. S. eleven years ago, they started to swim at Manhattan Beach in 1928 when their father got a job as night clerk at a nearby hotel. A lifeguard observed their talent, brought them to the attention of Leo Handley, Women's Swimming Association coach. They have an older sister who cannot swim. Phenomenally pretty, they use much lipstick, wear clothes made by Mrs. Rompa. retire at 10 p. m. every night. Both specialize in the backstroke, of which they are among...
...like," he nevertheless showed an uncanny eye for the weather of public preference. When the public wanted Westerns, he gave it Curwood & Kyne. When it wanted Knowledge, he gave it Will Durant. When it wanted Russians, he gave it Russians. Prodigally sowing Big Names and New Names with talent in his slick and shiny monthly, Editor Long reaped a 1,700,000 circulation harvest in 1929. That was the year he printed perhaps his greatest coup: The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge...
Political calumny has long since obscured the moderate fact of Adolf Hitler's small talents as a young man. While his parents were still living in little Leonding not far from the Austro-German border, Adolf and his flaxen-haired mother decided he would be a painter or an architect. First obstacle was his besotted, burly father, retired cobbler and customs official. The father died when Adolf was 14. The mother was dying of a cancer. The neighbors thought lonely, daydreaming Adolf was losing his mind in sympathy for his mother's suffering because he spent all his time woodcarving...
...shining exception among Author Lewis' labored tales is his brilliant The Willow Walk, a first-rate story in any company. A small-town bank teller with a talent for dramatics wanted to commit a perfect crime, and did. He constructed the myth of his twin brother, John, hermit and religious fanatic, often posed as John to get the story believed. Then he stole $97,000, put on the character and clothing of fictitious John, waited for the search to die down. For 18 months he lived and prayed and slept as John, found himself becoming John. In desperation...
...than she was to that of being one when she sang at London's Covent Garden before Queen Mary last month (TIME. June 24). Her voice which, in Columbia's recording of it, sounds better than any other in the cinema, is as good as usual. Her talent for light comedy makes the laborious convolutions of Victor Schertzinger's story seem almost enjoyable. Leo Carrillo croaks so amiably that he may hereafter head Hollywood's oversized roster of dialect leading men. Best sounds: the Love Duet, from Act I of La Boheme, in which Michael Bartlett...