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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 »

Precocious and frolicsome, all too many Irish colleens get honest Irishmen in trouble every year by pretending to be above the age of consent. Last week the plight of such duped Irishmen was gravely debated by the Free State Senate. As their champion up rose dignified Senator Maurice Moore, brother of the late great Novelist George Moore, a great hand at describing the frolics of colleens. "I propose," he intoned, "that our girls be obliged by a law which I now propose to the Senate to wear a distinctive dress until they reach the age of consent, fixed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Moore Maidens | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...Boston: "The Scarlet Letter"--Colleen Moore in an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 9/27/1934 | See Source »

Loew's Orpheum: "Chained"--with Joan Crawford. Reviewed in this Jssue. R.K.O. Boston: "The Scariet Letter"--Colleen Moore in au adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 9/25/1934 | See Source »

Weakened by its off-key conclusion, Success at Any Price is not improved by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s skin-deep performance. Colleen Moore appears for the first time since she started a comeback in The Power and the Glory (TIME, Aug. 28). Mousy, pallid, indecisive, she is no longer the pert, starry-eyed actress of 'flapper" roles in silent picture days, when exhibitors voted her the industry's No. 1 box office attraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

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