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...lushly romantic Mayerling, Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux played out the theory of a suicide pact, inspired by Emperor Franz Joseph's order to break off the love affair. The real dope, whispers the new picture confidentially, is that the Prince (Jean Marais) and Marie Vetsera (Dominique Blanchar) were victims of a political intrigue. They planned suicide, all right, even left notes. But after they changed their minds, a German agent slipped into the bedroom and finished the job with his pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Import, Jun. 4, 1951 | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Simply by wearing a cap in his pictures, the silent screen's Wallace Reid started men rushing to buy caps of their own. Clark Gable almost wrecked the sale of men's undershirts by appearing without one in 1934's It Happened One Night. Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne toasted each other with pink champagne in 1939's Love Affair, and the day after the Manhattan opening, romantic moviegoers snapped up Macy's whole stock of the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Plug Lobby | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...more troops, 2) more tanks & guns, 3) warships. An appeal would be made to the U.S. to speed up military-aid airplanes. At the same time, General Marcel Alessandri, 65-year-old infantryman, was relieved as commander of the Tonkin area and replaced by General Pierre Georges Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, 63, who has an intimate knowledge of Indo-China and a reputation for energy and aggressiveness. Say his colleagues: "Il a beaucoup de mordant" (He has plenty of bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Plenty of Bite? | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

Marion Willard Boyer, 49, up-from-the-ranks Hoosier who is vice president in charge of manufacturing for Esso Standard Oil Co., was named general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, to succeed Carroll L. Wilson, who resigned in August. Boyer fitted the pattern the AEC was looking for: a production man with a research background. Boyer, a chemical engineer, was making three times as much at Esso as the $20,000 the AEC will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Producing Minds | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...Secret Game, by François Boyer. A stark little story about the game with animals and crosses that two French children thought up after seeing too much death (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Sep. 25, 1950 | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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