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Also on view in the front hall of the Library, is an exhibition of books belonging to the well-known Boston music-critic, Philip Hale, presented by his wife. Hale was well known as a book collector, and part of his collection of first editions of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville are shown here...
...best direction of the year went to Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The Academy gave out 15 other Oscars for everything from film editing to sound recording. Of these, four went to MGM, six to Warner Brothers. Biggest Oscar collection in Hollywood is that of Cartoonist Walt Disney. Last week he got his fifth, for the best cartoon of the year, Mickey Mouse's Country Cousin...
...presented only five times in the past. It went to Charles Chaplin in 1928 for his single-handed feat of writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus and to Warner Brothers for "marking an epoch in motion picture history"; Shirley Temple (1935) for greatest individual contribution to screen entertainment;* Walt Disney (1932) for inventing Mickey Mouse; and David Wark Griffith (1936) as a belated tribute for outstanding contributions "to the advancement of the motion picture." Last week the Committee decided that in 1935-36 cinema had received a contribution outstanding "for having revolutionized one of the most important branches...
...events scheduled, all the runners will be fresh and ready to hit a new low time. Johnny Nevius, who broke the Yale-Cornell meet record last week with a 50.2 second leg will make up the team with Ham Hucker, brilliant veteran quarter-miler, Jim Pender, the sprinter and Walt Tatum...
...Boeing, had left San Francisco at 5:30 that afternoon, streaked down the San Joaquin Valley at some 200 m.p.h. toward the first stop at Burbank. Aboard were two pilots, pretty Hostess Yvonne Trego, and nine passengers, including a member of Jimmy Dorsey's orchestra, an artist from Walt Disney's studio and young Edward Thomas Ford Jr., son of the vice president of the Grace Lines, with his pretty wife. The weather was not bad: at Bakersfield the ceiling was 3,500 ft., at Burbank 3,000 ft. The peaks on both sides of the course were...