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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late Harry Baur's performance as Volpone-at once lovable and evil, silly and profound-is a vaudeville masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Good & French | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...hall, there was no companionship between the factions, and no gaiety. Most delegates had modest accommodations in second-rate hotels (France's Daniel Mayer shared his room with four colleagues). Only the Rumanian delegate, Serban Voina, had a room in Zurich's best hotel, the lovely, luxurious Baur-au-Lac, whose terraces descend gently to Lake Zurich. Nevertheless, Zurich looked like another Eden to the delegates from poor, hungry countries. Said France's Salomon Grumback: "This city is so clean, you almost become dizzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOCIALISTS: The Tired Businessmen | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...visible audience of 300, and to Crimson Network listeners, Colonel Frederic G. Baur '00 offered the Veterans of Foreign Wars' membership of almost 2,000,000 as the oldest, largest, and strongest organization of its kind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELLIOTT WARNS OF PITFALLS IN ORGANIZATION FOR VETERANS | 3/8/1946 | See Source »

...actually born in Shelby County, Tenn. Taken to Europe by his parents when he was an infant, he returned to the U.S. in 1939 as a veteran director of German and French films-mostly comedies and musicals-which starred such notables as Emil Jannings, Maurice Chevalier, Harry Baur. But West Coast studios weren't interested. The break came a couple of years ago when he made Phantom Lady with Producer Joan Harrison (TIME, Feb. 28, 1944), followed up with The Suspect and Uncle Harry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Married. John Wayne (real name.: Marion Michael Morrison), 38, outstanding (6 ft. 2 in.) Hollywood Horse Operative; and Esperanza Baur, 24, to-the-manor-born Mexican cinemactress; both for the second time (she again to a Morrison, he again to a Latin American); in Long Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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