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Life Magazine. Life Magazine 2/15/37 GENERAL SENJURO HAYASHI. Life Magazine, 1937.

LIFE February 15, 1937. Vol. 7, No. 21. 72 pages. The magazine, in illustrated wrappers, is in VERY GOOD condition: front wrapper has mark on bottom corner, back pages have some water staining. The inside pages are very bright and clean. Articles include: SPEAKING OF PICTURESÖA NATURALIST IN DISGUISE TOOK THESE Naturalist photographer William Lovell Finely has been putting on strange disguises and taking remarkable closeup pictures of birds and beasts. Today he has one of the world's finest collections of animal pictures-more than 200,000 feet of cinema film, and 60,000 still photographs; PRESS AND CHURCH HELP FIGHT HIGH WATER IN LOUISVILLE Louisville, KY will henceforth rank with Johnstown in 1889 and Dayton in 1913 among the worst flooded cities in American history. Three-fourths of Louisville was inundated; TENNESSEE PUTS A CHAIN GANG ON ITS LEVEES As the crest of the flood bore down on Tennessee and Arkansas, all hands turned to the job of strengthening and building higher the Mississippi levees. Chain gangs were impressed into emergency service from Tennessee's Shelby County Penal Farm; LIFE ON THE AMERICAN NEWSFRONT: TIGER CLAWS TRAINER IN CALIFORNIA THEATER To enliven his act at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles Capt. Ramon Proske, animal trainer and onetime Austrian soldier, sat down with a Bengal tiger; RINGLING BROS. CIRCUS STARTS WINTER REHEARSAL; THE CASE OF THE CHILD BRIDE At Treadway, Tenn nine-year-old Eunice Winstead, with her mother's consent, married Charlie Johns, 22; IN AUTO STRIKE SOME WOMEN TALK WHILE OTHERSÖARM WITH CLUBS AND BREAK WINDOWS OF CHEVROLET PLANT An English M.P. Laborite Ellen Wilkinson encourages GM workers; To Cadillac auto workers Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, wife of former Pennsylvania Governor protests; LIFE GOES TO A PARTY WITH SAVAGES, SAILORS AND A MERMAID AT THE SCARAB BALL IN DETROIT No U.S. costume ball is gayer than Detroit's annual Scarab Ball. This year held in the Book-Cadillac Hotel exceeded all 20 previous Scarab festivities. Photos include: Actress Mary Nicklas, Clem Mason, Mr & Mrs. Frohman Auderson, Donald Beach and William A. Frank, Beaver Edwards, Dave Hill and Clemence Le Febvre, Maurice Rogers and Nancy Piaskowski, Mr. And Mrs. T. Rodney Jones. THE PRESIDENT ASKS FOR POWER TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE SUPREME COURT The nine Justices of the Supreme Court were in session when a court attendant handed each a copy of President Roosevelt's message to congressÖto create a Supreme Court of varying size, with a maximum of 15 Justices; WHERE NINE OLD MEN HOLD SUPREME COURT; WHERE NINE OLD MEN EAT LUNCHEON; ANDREW MELLON MAKES A MUNIFICENT GIFT TO THE NEW WASHINGTON HE PLANNED Last Christmas he proposed to give the Government his own enormously valuable collection of painting together with8,000,000 for a gallery building on the Mall. Mr. Mellon's architect, John Russell Pope, revealed his design for the National Art Gallery; TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX movie lot where Darryl Zanuck works in Beverly Hills; BEHOLD THE WAHOO BOY: DARYL ZANUCK; THE PRIVATE LIFE OF DARRYL ZANUCK; BESIDES ZANUCK, THESE ARE THE CHIEF ASSETS OF TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX: Shirley Temple, Simone Simon, Irving Berlin, Skater Sonja Henie; THE VAN GOGH EXHIBITÖMOST SUCCESSFUL ONE-MAN SHOW IN U.S. ART HISTORY FINALLY CLOSES The most spectacularly successful one-man show in the history of American art was the exhibit of the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh assembled by the Museum of Modern Art of New York City; IN ARLES AND SAINT-REMY VAN GOGH DID HIS BEEST WORK; Van Gogh's home in Arles, Sanitarium at Saint-Remy, The Bridge at Arles which van Gogh loved to paint; SQUASH RACQUETS CHAMPION PRACTICES FOR NATIONAL TOURNAMENT Increasingly popular in colleges from Harvard to PurdueÖleft-handed champion Germain Glidden now playing No. 1 on the Class A team of Manhattan's Harvard Club; JEAN HARLOW, IN WASHINGTON FOR THE PRESIDENT'S BALL, KISSES A SENATOR Jean Harlow and husband Robert Taylor lunch with the President and Mrs. Roosevlet and gives a kiss Senator Robert Rice Reynolds of North Carolina; DOROTHY KILGALLEN in a Camel CigareTte ad; HOW A WIFE SHOULD NOT UNDRESS At the Allen Gilbert School of Undressing, Professor Connie Fonzlau begins her lesson on Bedroom Don'ts; HOW A WIFE SHOULD UNDRESS June St. Clair of the Allen Gilber School of Undressing shows how a wife should undress. The Allen Gilbert course; BUCHMAN'S OXFORD GROUPERS MARCHING AS TO WAR A thousand young men and women met at Malvern in western England to conquer their country for God and Dr. Frank Buchman's Oxford Group; A DAY WITH OXFORD GROUPERS Mrs. Miriam Haywood, Colonel C.R.P. Winser, John Gellibrand Hubbard, third Baron Addington; THE CAMERA OVERSEA THE CHINESE A Blaze at 40 miles an hour, this Chinese train on the 55-mile Canton-to-Hongkong run has 85 incinerated Chinese inside. AND THE CUBANS The only smil in this cockfight audience in Havana's suburb of Murianao is on the face of Cuba's Army Chief of Staff Fulgencio Batista as his bird takes the offensive. Also in photos: aristocratic Carlos Mendieta, President Miguel Gomez, Lieut. Col. Inspector Jose Pedraza Calver, Police Chief Pratts; JAPANESE EMPORER'S PALACE IN TOKYO, WHENCE FLOWS ALL POWER TO CIVILIAN AND SOLDIER A desperate struggle for power between the Fascist Japanese Army and the democratic Parliament broke into the open. August umpire was Emperor Hirohito whose Tokyo Palace is shown on these pages. The photographs on the opposite page are the first ever permitted of the Emperor's rooms: Imperial Palace Kiri-no-ma room, The Hall of Abundant Peace (Homei-den), Room of a Thousand Grasses (Chigasu-no-ma); THE DUKE OF NORFOLK TAKES A BRIDE WHILE LONDON WOMEN RIOT AND A PAGE BOY SQUAWKS The 28-year-old Duke of Norfolk, who must stage-manage King George VI's coronation next May, finished his own affairs by getting married. The bride, the Honorable Lavinia Strutt, was a little unorthodox. Photos include: Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke; Kinharvie, the Scottish estate of the groom's mother where the couple honeymoon; Lord Belper, the bride's father; THE DUKE OF WINDSOR GETS HIS MAIL Salutations in the day's mail of the exiled Duke of Windsor, once King Edward VIII of Britain, come in the variety shown above. Three Americans call him David WindsorÖ.; THE SERBS A cross of ice frozen in a form, was pushed into Yugoslavia's river Sava by His Holiness Varnava, Patriarch of the Serb Orthodox church to be fished out by young Serbs; SPANISH REBEL BOMBERS HIT A MUNITIONS TRAIN Captain Guerrero and his bomber of the Trechuelo Escadrilla with photographs taken by Helmuth Kurth; PRIVATE LIVES: Marlene Dietrich; Countess van Buren; Mario Pansa; Vittorio Mussuloni, Il Duce's eldest son and his wife Orsola Buvoli; Joshua Cockburn's Edgemont Hills home in Westchester County; A LOGGER NAMES ROSINBELLY TOPS A 200-FT TREE; LUMBERJACKS ROLL LOGS FOR FUN. Paperback condition: Very Good

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