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...exhibit are many illustrations for the several parts of the "Life of Sir John Falstaff." With these are some of Cruikshank's well-known drawings, of which the ones of "Bluebeard," and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" are notable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLECTIONS--and--CRITIQUES | 11/5/1929 | See Source »

...often seen talent where other producers saw nothing at all-she had a series of successes in comedy dramas of a sophistication suited to her flexible, quick voice and the knowing angle of her head in its paintbrush swirl of blonde hair (The Gold Diggers, Grounds for Divorce, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). She has managed to withstand the floodlight of attention which the press of three continents turned loose on her honeymoon abroad, still in progress. There was one crucial night at Cap D'Antibes when she and Gilbert argued about what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

There 60-year-old Bluebeard Drat said to his police guards, "Kill me right away, don't bother me with questions about women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bluebeard Week | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Something about a Barbe Bleu fires the emotions of Frenchmen. Men marry women and kill them for their wealth in every land; but in France a Barbe Bleu is news. Last week was bluebeard week at Marseilles, the chief and most casually immoral port city of France, and a famed stockade for transient White Slavers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Bluebeard Week | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

Beginning with the murder of Bobby Franks by Leopold and Loeb, ending with the case of Henri Landru, the Parisian Bluebeard, the beok deals, by the way, with the murder of Rasputin, the assassination of the Romanoffs at Ekaterinburg, the case of Steinie Morison, the Stockholm Dynamite Murder, and the Rosenthal murder in New York...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTIETH CENTURY CRIMES. By Frederick A Mackenzie Little, Brown, and Co., Boston 1927, $3.00. | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

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