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Word: cinemactresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enjoyment. Actually, it becomes almost as great a drain on his resources as a Mr. Fix-It as was the birth of the quintuplets on his skill as an obstetrician. In one afternoon he finds himself obliged, as mentor for the 3,000, to: 1) succor a suicidal cinemactress, 2) trick a U. S. Governor into adopting a child, 3) bring his assistant and his nurse together, 4) save an old friend from losing his young wife. All this leaves the audience with renewed conviction that sequels are rarely as good as the first instalment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...year-old Town & Country came out with a handsome 204-page issue, largest in its history, billed as America's "First Christmas Annual." Featured was a nostalgic article on old-time college proms by Town & Country's fashion editor, Mrs. Chester La Roche, sister of Cinemactress Rosalind Russell; descriptions by Sportsman Foxhall Keene of his 18 injuries sustained in sport; and a two-page, full-color spread of "The First Christmas" by Gentile da Fabriano in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Christmas Annuals | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Proclaimed President George at Vienna, Ga. : "Porters should be called by some official title, perhaps 'Porter' or, why not call them bv their own names?" Introduced to New York's vacationing Governor Herbert Henry Lehman at Palm Springs, Calif., Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 7, played Ping-Pong and shuffleboard with him, became engrossed in pro longed conversation, afterwards reported: "We were talking politics." Irked since he first spotted the Harvard University seal displayed on the Rhode Island State House library ceiling among the seals of 16 renowned printers, Gover nor Theodore Francis ("Teddy") Green, Brown & Harvard Law School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Open champion, played 123 holes three under par and groaned about his putting. One-time Champions Tommy Armour, Paul Runyan and Gene Sarazen were all put out the same morning and the defending champion, Johnny Revolta, was beaten in the afternoon. Jimmy Thomson, famed as the husband of onetime Cinemactress Viola Dana and the longest driver in golf, wore the same green socks every day, washing them himself at night. His conviction that they brought him luck was not contradicted by victories over Henry Picard, Harold McSpaden, Craig Wood. Wild Bill Melhorn appeared with a putter that had a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: P. G. A. at Pinehurst | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Mavis Arden, a famed cinemactress on tour with her publicity agent (Warren William), has only one insterest in life, which it is his job to frustrate. The interest is men. In Washington, Mavis meets a Congressman (Lyle Talbot), makes an engagement for the next night in Harrisburg. To prevent her from keeping it, Pressagent Stevens sees to it that her car breaks down en route. Forced to stay over a country boardinghouse, she wastes no time getting down to business. She spots a young mechanic under her car, murmurs, "Look at those strong and sinewy muscles," sidles outdoors to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

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