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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wrinkled, doggy, 74-year-old Townsend Scudder, retired New York State Supreme Court Justice, won a Connecticut State Supreme Court injunction allowing him to maintain 27 cocker spaniels on his Round Hill, Greenwich, Conn, estate. Thus ended a litigious two years in which neighbors, annoyed by barking, had sought to hold Judge Scudder down to a measly ten spaniels...
Denied a further extension of his four-month alien visitor's permit, rabbity British Earl Bertrand Arthur William Resell, famed libertarian logician, found he must leave the U. S. by year's end. Not anxious for U. S. citizenship, but wishing to qualify for a permanent chair of philosophy at the University of California (where he has been lecturing), Earl Russell will go to Ensenada, Mexico, try to persuade the U. S. consul there to admit him permanently...
...bounce. Hollywood gave him higher walls to scale, longer ropes to swing on, scores more swordsmen to engage in single-handed combat. His first picture, The Lamb, jumped his first ten-week contract, under puttee-wearing Director David Wark Griffith, from $2,000 a week to a three-year contract at $4,000 a week, typed him for life as an acrobatic comedian. Grinning, he slashed, sprang and flew through such cinema classics as Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad, The Three Musketeers, The Black Pirate...
Gable's head was in a whirl. Hundreds of the prettiest little girls he had ever seen had surrounded him earlier. One looked at him a little too long, gasped: "Lord, I can't stand this any longer," fainted. An eleven-year-old girl, given a choice of getting a Christmas present or meeting Clark Gable, chose Gable. When Gable kissed her, she asked, "Now am I a woman...
...summer days, hammering out G With the W Script No. i. When finished, it contained 30,000 words, would have required five and a half hours to run if it ever had been shot. It never was. They made another. Then Selznick made another. In the next year Jo Swerling, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, John Van Druten, Michael Foster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Miller, John Balderston, Edwin Justus Mayer all had at least a little finger in the scenario. But next to Sidney Howard's work, the bulk of the scripting, as David Selznick admits, was done...