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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deviously Paula set about her malefactions. First she led Boyd to believe that Barbara had merely been duping him. So much did this evidence of duplicity infuriate the upright fellow that he straightway became drunk and stole into the night with Paula. She took him to an unsavory rooming house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: August Forecast | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

The Single Standard (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Greta Garbo usually manages to make her roles real no matter how badly written they are. This story about a fashionable woman who insists on the right to make her own mistakes is better than most of such stories. The idea out of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

The Fight for Matterhorn (German). Knowing that audiences all over the world have been bored by faked scenes illustrating the perils of Alpine mountaineering, the producers of The Fight for Matterhorn did not dare to let their fly-like heroes start up the icy ledges until they had roped them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Nine years ago a man named Julian La Rose Harris went to Columbus, Ga. With him went his wife, Julia Collier Harris, and together they bought controlling shares of a newspaper, the Enquirer-Sun. All Columbians knew about the Harrises was that he was a son of Author Joel Chandler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brave & Bankrupt | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

"Jason had been a long baby, and had grown to six feet before he was eighteen. He was beyond that now, and so ashamed of it that he would never let himself be measured. ... But Rita [his sister] . . was all head. Her head had grown in and on to such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Baby | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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