April 10, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about the wildflower fields of Kern County. “Now I have seen them and I know that until one has seen them one cannot comprehend what California's spring wildflower show is like,” he says, never tipping off the reader that he had been blind for years. He once said: "I never saw humanity clearly until I lost my sight."

Tom Treanor visits a factory that makes women’s shoes….

A consensus of cameramen listed Marlene Dietrich as the most easily photographed star, Norma Shearer as the most difficult, Jimmie Fidler says.