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...Marie Dressier sings and prances around. Sometimes slapstick turns into comedy, sometimes comedy trails off into slapstick. The Hollywood Revue is not sophisticated but it is good entertainment. Best song: 'Singing in the Rain.' Prettiest girl: Joan Crawford. Silliest shot: Jack Benny covered with icing from the cake. Best shot: Marie Dressier imitating Marie of Rumania. To publicize the film in Manhattan, a smart manager put up a "human billboard" of flesh-&-blood chorus girls outside the theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Pale, flabby-fleshed, glisteningly bald Dr. Gustav Stresemann played at the Hague Conference last week an astute, unobtrusive dickering game for Germany. The quarrel over whether Great Britain should get a larger share of the Reparations "sponge cake" (TIME, Aug. 19) was the German Foreign Minister's big chance. In the bitter fiscal struggle of France and her Latin allies to resist the demands of British Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden it came logically about, last week, that both antagonists found themselves willing to offer political concessions to the Reich for maintaining a benevolent neutrality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Hague Haggle | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...Sponge Cake Showdown. On the fiscal battle line, choleric, drawn-faced Philip Snowden put away the clumsy weapon of personal insult, labored honestly to clarify the points on which he demanded concessions before Great Britain would agree to join with Europe in ratifying the Young Plan (TIME, May 13, et seq.). The plan proposes a certain division of German Reparations-called "sponge cake" by homely Yorkshireman Snowden-among the Creditor Powers (Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Japan, etc.). Fortnight ago Chancellor Snowden rocked the fiscal and diplomatic worlds by demanding for Britain "MORE SPONGE CAKE!" But only last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Hague Haggle | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...London. None could inform him better than Tycoons Lamont and Norman. After hearing their views Mr. MacDonald flew back to Lossiemouth, cogitated through the night, finally issued a startling manifestation in support of Chancellor Snowden's demand that the Empire receive a larger slice of the reparations "sponge cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Edinburgh Conferences | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Frau Eckener awaited her husband with a birthday cake, candles, homely gifts. Said she: "My very best present for him is to make sure that he can sleep undisturbed. He appreciates rest more than anything else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Zeppelin Around the World | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

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