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Marianne (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the most lamentable consequences of the singing pictures is Marion Davies. Here she is as a French girl in love with Stagg* of the A. E. F. One of the ablest clowns in the cinema she is forced to be sentimental. A skillful pantomimic, she has to talk continually, even sing. Unalterably Irish-American she wears peasant clothes and expresses herself in a language consisting of U. S. baby-talk combined with the foreign word cheri. A French soldier who has gone blind is the dramatic obstruction in her affair with Stagg. Best shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...ablest of college heads, President Tuck removed the bushel that had obscured the light which now radiates from Hanover. He revitalized the once somnolent institution, and President Hopkins has carried on the tradition. The green-jerseyed players and the thousands of supporters of the Indians' fortune who will be in the Stadium this afternoon represent a new Dartmouth, born less than fifty years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICANIZATION | 10/26/1929 | See Source »

Hansi Preisinger, daughter of Oberammergau's postmaster was a candidate for the supreme role of the Virgin Mary. Custom demands that not only must the girl chosen be a virgin but she must remain unmarried for one year afterward. Hansi, ablest virgin actress, is engaged to an engineer in the power plant. So the tactful electors awarded her the role of Mary Magdalene, less important, more nubile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Christus | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...unbiased are the methods of Science. Less incorruptible, less unbiased are U. S. politics. For months a Chicago University professor has been investigating U. S. politics by sober scientific methods. Last week he published a voluminous report,* in which he confirmed much unscientific observation. He observed that the "ablest minds of the community" refused to become embroiled in politics, that competent public servants were all too often displaced by Stentorian, spread-eagle politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Chicagology | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Thus simply and suddenly to a waiting niche in Japanese history passed one of her ablest military leaders and one of her most famed politicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Untimely Death | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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