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...Britain. This would certainly shake Hollywood, as well as make Rank's movies a big source of dollar exchange in Britain. It might encourage the Socialists to nationalize the industry. If that happened, then Hollywood might find that its marriage was turning out to be an affair with Bluebeard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: King Arthur & Co. | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Face of the silents was making his latest comeback try in Mexico where audiences prefer their comedians pathetic. Turned 51 last week, Keaton had just finished his first Mexican picture, hoped soon to make another. He looked about the same as ever, and so did the picture: The Modern Bluebeard, or My Trip to the Moon. It had everything from life-adrift-at-sea to mistaken identity and ordeal by cops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Darkest America | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Strict inspection and regulation will be essential in the atomic age, for any place once contaminated with radioactivity is exceedingly hard to purify. Admiral Blandy's sailors tried fire-hoses and scrubbing brushes on radioactive ships. Like the blood on Bluebeard's key, the radioactivity would not wash away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Problem of the Age | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Through the gossip ran a feeling of something fishy. The suspicious wondered: Could Bluebeard Petiot be a fiction invented to distract the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Rue Le Sueur | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...Caumariin. At week's end the police had not yet caught up with the Bluebeard of rue Le Sueur. But they thought they knew who he was: Dr. Marcel Petiot, who lived with his wife and son in genteel rue Caumartin, rented the house on rue Le Sueur as a "laboratory." Police said that Petiot had lived a delinquent childhood (letter stealing, perversion), had once been fined for improper dealing in narcotics. They whispered that his rue Caumartin office was well-known among women of the Paris demimonde. In Paris Soir a Madame Parisinot told how she had recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Rue Le Sueur | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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