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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Lady this glamorous career of sin and scandal becomes as exciting as a sleeping draught. In vain Actress Norma Terris, as Madame Jumel, flaunts her jewels and warbles her high notes. In vain Actress Irene Bordoni leers, winks, ooh-la-las as she has done for over 25 years. In vain Great Lady's, sets grow more & more lavish, its costumes more & more lacy. For the music is stock and tame, the humor callow and vulgar; the acting is wooden, the directing leaden, the writing brassy. Great Lady is the season's gaudiest bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

More distinguished than any of her performances thus far as a mere working actress was Paulette Goddard's farewell performance as a phantom actress. Last winter, after breaking one of her nails, which were almost an inch long, she went about Palm Beach with her finger in a sling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 12, 1938 | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

Only Ghandi and an occasional actress will deny the basic importance of food, but those who are committed to the task of educating will argue that even more important is the locale and environment in which students keep body and soul together. In 1930 Dean Hanford said that the House System had done away with the deplorable effects of "eating around," and President Conant has on several occasions pointed out the broadening, stimulating and even educational effect of the dining hall system upon those who share its blessings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOD FOR THOUGHT AND VICE VERSA | 12/7/1938 | See Source »

...have been told that your magazine answers questions for its readers. I am interested to learn what descent may be ascribed to the parents of Shirley Temple, "the little actress." So many seem to disagree on this question. I thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Actress Marcy Wescott is fair of face. Actress Muriel Angelus is full of grace. Eddie Albert, last year a frisky, puzzled Brother Rat. this year makes a no less puzzled Twin Brother Antipholus. Fast, lively, imaginative is the dancing. Casting, directing and timing are perfect. Dowagers leave the theatre like subdebs, whistling the most melodious tunes that a Rodgers & Hart musical has had in several years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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