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Word: cinemactresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Railway glamor such as even the 20th Century Limited never knew has ridden for half a century, still rides the Orient Express. For every tycoon deposited in Chicago and for every cinemactress brought to Broadway by the New York Central's famed train, the Orient Express has carried its kings, its Kreugers, its peacock Balkan generals and as many spies as frontier guards can be bribed to pass between Europe proper and Asia improper on the musty, rattle-banging train de luxe. There are also German travelers, omnivorous, industrious and good at figuring out. as one did recently, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Orient Express | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...leading lady. Three U. S. producers held rights to the show before the Shuberts had Harry Wagstaff Gribble revise it for presentation in Philadelphia in March 1933. The show failed. Next revisionists were Philip Dunning (Broadway) and Harold Johnsrud, whose version opened in Pittsburgh in November 1933 with oldtime Cinemactress Pola Negri as star. The show failed. Next year it was scheduled for another tryout in Boston. It did not come off until the Shuberts got Arthur Goodrich (Richelieu) to do a third adaptation and hired a sad little red-headed woman named Greta Maren for the chief role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. Marcus Cook ("Marc") Connelly, 44, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright (The Green Pastures); by Madeline Hurlock Connelly, onetime cinemactress; in London. Mrs. Connelly was reported planning to marry Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

With a short speech, Alfred Emanuel Smith handed Mrs. James Roosevelt Sr. a tiny gold "cornerstone"' in Macy's Manhattan department store. With another short speech, Mrs. Roosevelt tucked it under a gleaming doll castle owned by old-time Cinemactress Colleen Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 15, 1935 | 4/15/1935 | See Source »

...Renoir, by Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Minton, Balch ($5). * One, known to all Cagnes-sur-Mer as Lili, married Son Jean Renoir, later became famed as Cinemactress Lili Hessling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter's Painter | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

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