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It's a Wise Child. Many are the ways in which a girl can rid herself of a distasteful fiancé. One of the simpler and more startling expedients is to tell him that she is with child. Joyce Stanton (Mildred McCoy) makes this strategic confession to G. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Author Bedel has a droll vivacity all his own. When his Bolivian Planter Cortes, newly rich, buys up the old estate of Fontecreuse in Touraine (southern France ?the Contes Drolatiques country), he installs an elevator, removes a Gobelin tapestry which interferes with the acoustics of his Negro saxophonist, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Green Paper | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Last week Chicago officials admitted that the city faced bankruptcy, that it had borrowed up to the legal limit on anticipated revenue, that only a Businessman's Commission could prevent financial disaster. Taxes were far behind because of assessments rank with favoritism. Fifty thousand city employes, chiefly firemen and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Rescue | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Mrs. Hugh Beckett Greene, 19, fair, chinless, has a boyish shape (shoulders larger than hips) but wants to have the girlish reverse. Her wedding-day confession:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sextette | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

The writer continued his financial discussion by stating that "The vote of the Council to establish a graduate advisory committee--would indicate a self-confession of the Council's inability successfully to run its own affairs." I cannot perceive the logic in such a conclusion. Does the presence of a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debated Points | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

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