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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost three times taller than her uncle Edward of Wales is six-year-old Princess Elizabeth's Bwthyn Bach to Gwellt or "Little Cottage with the Straw Roof " Built at a cost of $10,000 to advertise the products of 100 Welsh firms, the cottage drew Welsh crowds at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

Less famed than "Mickey Mouse" is the animated cartoon "Betty Boop." Claiming that the latter is a too palpable imitation of her own lisping seductive mannerisms, Singer Helen ("Boop-Boopa~ Doop") Kane filed suit against the Max Fleischer Studios and Paramount-Publix Corp. for $250,000.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 16, 1932 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

The Miracle Man (Paramount) was a vast success when acted by Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson and Lon Chaney in 1919. Now, remade as a talkie, it is an anomalous parable, more confusing than inspiring. Certain vicious characters led by a wretched John Madison (Chester Morris) find an old faith-healer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: May 2, 1932 | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

Stiffkey (pronounced "Stewky") is in Norfolk. Beyond officiating at matins and evensong on Sundays, bland, white-haired Dr. Davidson* spent little time there. His avowed mission was in London where he devoted himself to saving errant girls. "We believe," ran the formal charge, "that the Rev. Harold F. Davidson had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rector of Stewky | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

Facts. It was announced that the original ransom demand (not yet made public) was found some hours after the child's disappearance was discovered, and not, as originally reported, when Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh first rushed with Nurse Betty Gow into the nursery. And both parents were not downstairs when Nurse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: On Sour land Mountain (Cont'd) | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

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