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...shoes. In No. 21's courtyard they dug into a lime-filled pit, hauled up the residue of 13 cadavers. But nowhere did they find the fiend responsible for France's goriest mass murder since whisker-ruffed Henri Désiré Landru, the 1920s' Bluebeard of Gambais, slaughtered ten women...

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

Irene Bordoni, super-Frenchy musicomedy veteran (Hitchy Koo, Little Miss Bluebeard, Naughty Cinderella), was the new chanteuse of Manhattan's La Vie Parisienne nightclub. The fiftyish, Corsica-born brunette sang favorites new & old (old favorites: If You Could Care for Me, Let's Do It, Do it Again), described her hairdo as the American Push-"Poosh all my hair on a other side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 21, 1944 | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...Bluebeard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Winners . . . | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...marriage to 18-year-old Oona O'Neill (his fourth), six weeks before the blood test which can clear him of ex-Protégée Joan Barry's paternity charge, Chaplin announced his next picture's subject. He will do the story of Bluebeard, with an "amusing angle." Miss Ealand, newcomer to Hollywood, said she would appear as the wife whom Bluebeard-Chaplin does not do away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Winners . . . | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...outside was designed in the style of the "Bluebeard's Palace" on the Revere Beach midway. It is triangular, consisting of three walls and a standpipe. A brass ibis has been perched on the latter almost without interruption since the beginning, though it has frequently been requested to leave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 11/12/1943 | See Source »

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