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...Died. Arsene Paulin Pujo, 78, tall, stately, renowned chairman of the trust-busting Pujo Congressional committee of 1911-13; of pneumonia, in Lake Charles, La. The Pujo committee was the first to third-degree J. P. Morgan Sr. and his "inner circle" of finance control; it was basic for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914, the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...usual plight of missionaries returning from South Sea islands is to relate Christian miracles and not be credited. The unusual plight of Marist Father Arsene J. Laplante last week was to relate a puzzling native miracle and to be believed because of incontrovertible evidence. He had a cinema film showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Kiss Fishing | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...Gerald made his only trip to the U. S. with Beerbohm Tree, acted in Hamlet, Henry IV, Trilby. In England he became one of the most famed actors of the land, played in Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton, Brewster's Millions, Bulldog Drummond, Alias Jimmy Valentine, Arsene Lupin. He was knighted in 1922. Lately he acted in the cinema. His last part: a French valet in Catherine the Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 23, 1934 | 4/23/1934 | See Source »

...cities as Prefect of Police, tamed the apaches, and with velvet-gloved truncheon put down each uprising of a notoriously restless populace. It was the quiet, tense efficiency of his regime which inspired the novels of Gaborlau, the mystery of Stevenson's "Suicide Club," and the dashing career of Arsene Lupin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUE MORGUE | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...Arsene Lupin" when it appeared two years ago was one of the first movies in which two male stars appeared together. John and Lionel Barrymore in one of their best performances are pitted against each other as the gentleman jewel robber, Arsene Lupin, and the chief of the Paris detective forces. Lupin's crowning coup is the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. Lionel, frustrated time and again, snorts, stamps, and raves superbly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/13/1933 | See Source »

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