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Four months after his sentence began, Prisoner Burns escaped, fled to Chicago. He became a real estate agent, married his landlady, a beautician named Emily Pacheo who was 13 years his senior. With $2,500 of her money he revived The Greater Chicago Magazine, realtors' sheet. By 1928 he was paying an income tax on $20,000. Meantime he met Lillian Salo, taxi-dancer. He fell in love and went to live with her. He asked his wife to divorce him. She notified the Georgia authorities of his whereabouts (TIME, June 3, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES 6? CITIES: Fugitive | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...champagne glasses, he wonders who she is. He learns that she is a Miss Healy (Constance Cummings) and that the saloon which she patronizes, out of nostalgia, was once her private residence. The elocutionist (Alison Skipworth) whom Anton hires to teach him polite diction gets drunk with a blonde beautician (Mae West), while Joe makes love to Miss Healy. Competing 'leggers try to buy his establishment and one of his old friends (Wynne Gibson) tries to re-open their relations with a revolver. What all this leads to any cinemaddict ought to know, but Raft and Cummings look their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Divorced. Jesse Lauriston Livermore, famed Wall Street speculator; by Dorothea Fox Wendt Livermore, 37, onetime beautician, his second wife; at Reno, Nev. Few minutes later Mrs. Livermore married James Walter Longcope, onetime Prohibition agent, famed for spending $7,000 in Texas Guinan's night club in 1927 to get evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 26, 1932 | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

Titles make a difference in such up & coming trades as undertaking, press-agenting, real estate, beautifying. Self-conscious pride has enriched the language with the fancy names "mortician," "public relations counsel," "realtor," "beautician." A profession which has never needed a prop to elegance and dignity is Music, yet last week there came a musician's lament. A letter to proud Conductor Leopold Stokowski of the Philadelphia Orchestra from sensitive Conductor Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony was published. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Orchestras & Street Cars | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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