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...parties. She joined the company of Viva Villa as an extra, got a small featured role without bothering to reveal her identity. Paramount scouts liked her work, singled her out for a long term contract before they knew her name. She refused to play in her father's Cleopatra (TIME, Aug. 27). Her next picture will be The Gilded Lily...
...your review of Cleopatra (TIME, Aug. 27) you quote Antony's last words to Cleopatra, "I am dying, Egypt, dying!", and attribute the line to Shakespeare. As a onetime resident of Cleveland TIME ought to know what every Ohioan knows, that the line was authored by Cincinnati's late, great General William Lytle, who was fatally wounded while leading a charge at Chickamauga...
True that William Haines Lytle's famed "Antony to Cleopatra" begins "I am dying, Egypt, dying!" But Soldier-Poet Lytle (1826-1863) presumably took his cue from Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Sc. 15, which contains the line. More about General Lytle will appear in the Sept. 17 issue of LETTERS, a new fortnightly published by TIME, Inc. For details about LETTERS...
...Ladies. Last February one of the ladies of the New Deal spoke thus over the radio: ". . . From Helen of Troy, the Queen of Sheba, Cleopatra, Elizabeth, Catherine of Russia and Queen Victoria, all through the centuries, governing women have had a part in shaping the destiny of nations. . . . This country has never had a Secretary of Labor better informed of her job, more certain of her goal, more skilled in reaching it ... than the present incumbent...
...offended Sister Mary Bertrand was nothing more than "a brief and dignified appearance on the stage of a young lady clad in the armor of the period." Sister Mary Bertrand declared that the Catholic Church is opposed to bathing beauty contests; that the appearance of St. Joan along with Cleopatra and Mme de Pompadour was deeply resented...