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1939-03-06 Life Magazine Contents March 6 1939

1939/03/06 — Cover photograph featuring Tallulah Bankhead is credited to Vandamm Studios

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Golden Gate Exposition Opens with Wild West Wallop
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • The King of Egypt’s Sister to Marry the Shah of Iran’s Son
  • Harry Hopkins Boom for President Starts in Native Iowa
  • Pope Pius is Buried in St. Peter’s
  • New York Nazis Beat Up Jew at Bund Meeting
  • “Mein Kampf” Is Published in Full for U.S. Readers
  • British Destroyer Is Repaired at Gibralter
  • German Battleship Is Launched at Hmaburg

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Fascism in America – Like Communism It Masquerades as Americanism – 7 pages

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Heywood Broun

    • SCIENCE:

  • Camelliams: The South’s Most Aristocratic Bloom Is Yankee Favorite
  • Rats Are Driven Crazy by Insoluable Problems

    • SPORTS:

  • Florida Gives Disbarred Jockey a Second Chance

    • THEATER:

  • “The Little Foxes” – Tallulah Bankhead Has Her First U.S. Hit

    • MOVIES:

  • “Cafe Society” with Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray
  • The First Actress of the Screen Dons a Wig and Plays an Empress – Photo of Bette Davis in “Juarez”

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Victorians Loved Rogers Sculpture
  • LIFE Covers the Miami Waterfront
  • Pictures to the Editors
  • Color ad featuring Shirley Temple in The Little Princess is on the inside front cover
  • Full-page black & white ad with huge image of Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne in “Love Affair”