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...Singapore to fetch Brother Mark with the aid of Brother Mark's fiancée. After much skullduggery on land and sea, Brother Mark is killed while embracing the cause of Brother Joel. That is the signal for Ramon Novarro and Joan Crawford to give each other a buss over the dead body of ugly Ernest Torrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Lovers. Ronald Colman gave Vilma Banky a buss. That is the major action of this pretty picture which once was Leather Face, novel of the Spanish invasion of Flanders, by the Baroness Orczy. It tells of a bailiff's son, purer than Galahad, bolder than Robin Hood, an unruly crusader against the Spanish governor. For peace the blonde niece of the governor married this leatherface. Set in a gentle glow of sentiment are mild bearded Spaniards spearing Flemish guards, and Flemish guards wetting Flanders fields with dark Spanish blood. And then Ronald Colman gave Vilma Banky a buss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 2, 1928 | 4/2/1928 | See Source »

...King Henry VIII who strolled about, ready to buss shy maids, was, of course, Chancellor Churchill. The scowling headsman, shouldering a "bloody" ax was the Earl of Birkenhead. Of the two simpering "little boys" in Eton jackets, turned down collars, pink bow ties and white socks, one was Prince George, 24, the other Edward of Wales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fancy Dress | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...written in parts, includes the original drawings sketched for it. It is commonly and erroneously thought that these drawings were made by Cruickshank. The sketches for the first four numbers of the papers were in fact drawn by Seymour. At this stage he committed suicide, and was succeeded by Buss, who illustrated number five. His plates proved unsatisfactory to Dickens and he was succeeded by Phiz (Hablot K. Brown). He remade the plates for number five and drew sketches for the remaining ones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL ROOM DISPLAYS DICKENS' "PICKWICK PAPERS" | 5/4/1927 | See Source »

Married. Francis Wolley ("Buss") Bronson, author of a recent first novel, Spring Running, onetime (1922) Chairman of the Yale Record (humorous fortnightly) ; to Miss Helen Louise Silkman, in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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