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...hurried, with staccato steps, to the center of a long table. There, Italy's Minister of Education Guido Gonella presented him with two bronze medals, one four centuries old, the other struck especially in his honor. After the minister's speech, cheers broke out anew; and "Il Bibi," clutching his gifts in small, gloved hands, bowed and beamed his thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Il Bibi | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Sing Out, Sweet Land! (Decca, 10 sides). A merry survey of 300 years of U.S. music from the late Broadway musical. Best of the 17 songs are Big Rock Candy Mountain, sung by Burl Ives, Casey Jones by Bibi Osterwald, and such treasures as Little Mohee and Frankie and Johnny. Performance: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...Enter "Bibi." In a marriage of convenience forced upon him by his family, Carol had not the slightest intention of remaining a faithful or even a discreet husband. He made no attempt to disguise his many extra-marital affairs, and few Rumanians, to whom mistresses are certainly not unusual,* would have given his peccadilloes a second thought had not His Royal Highness happened one night in the Cercul Militar to meet a voluptuous young woman named Magda Lupescu. Daughter of a small shopkeeper, divorced wife of an Army lieutenant, she also happened to be half-Jewish in a country stridently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Francois Maurice Chevalier Madeliene Ann Dvorak Gaston Bibi Edward Everett Horton Joe Arthur Pierson Suzanne Mirna Gombell Pedro Douglas Dunebrille...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/14/1933 | See Source »

...There's a Lucky Guy." The camera approaches a street singer in an alley in Paris, then several other malcontents who eye their compatriots enviously, and finally Francois who carries a sign on his chest advertising his employer, Professor Gaston Bibi, who can patch up marital troubles. Francois is looking at a guide from the Prias Tours Company; he longs to be in that man's place. He is standing before the great Mr. Prias begging for a position; he leaves with the slight consolation that he may hear from the firm when it has an opening. Before he realizes...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/14/1933 | See Source »

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