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...First National, she has had increasingly important roles in The Riding Voice, Taxi, The Hatchet Man, Play Girl. Appealing modulation of voice and manner, decorous softness of demeanor are Cinemactress Young's chief characteristics on the screen; she attributed them in part to her schooling in a Los Angeles convent. The fluffiness of her brown mop she attributes to her habit of shampooing it with cleaning fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 5, 1932 | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...resigned the chancellorship in 1929; recalled last year, he failed to form a cabinet. In office and out he always lived as a simple priest in a small stone cloister cell, where each morning he celebrated mass. His noon meal was usually soup taken to him in a convent iron kettle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...Little Flower's shrine at Lisieux, France, where Marie Francoise Thérèse Martin entered the Carmelite Convent at 15, many & many a pilgrim has journeyed. Fulfilled long ago by scores of miracles was the Little Flower's prediction that "Après ma mart je ferai tomber une pluie de roses" (After my death I will cause to fall a shower of roses). In gratitude, and for spiritual love, many francs, pounds and dollars have been given to the Carmelites at Lisieux in whose daily prayers all subscribers are remembered. At Lisieux last week there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Little Flower's Basilica | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...Dublin, used as a carrier pigeon base, come their friend Joe Arigho, Commandant of Home Defense, and his young daughter Catherine, who trains the carriers. They are expecting messages from the front. Allen tries to make his guests easy, is made uneasy himself by Catherine. Just out of a convent, she has strange ideas of martyrdom for Ireland's sake. She talks fervently of a plan to meet the threatened invasion-to surrender parts of Ireland without resistance, in exchange for parts to remain unmolested, where Irish culture, Irish religion can be preserved. To matter-of-fact Brigid this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Erin Go Bragh! | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

Several men received the same degree as of the Class of 1930. They were: R. W. Canfield, of New York City, Samuel Cauman, of Brookline, J. E. McKenna, of Brighton, E. W. Olney, Jr., of Convent, New Jersey, J. J. Riley, of Charlestown, F. J. Von Scholer, Jr., of Huntington, Long Island, N. Y., R. A. Thomas, of New York City, and F. C. Troll, of St. Clairsville, Ohio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECIPIENTS OF A.B., S.B., A.M. MID-YEAR DEGREES THIS YEAR ANNOUNCED | 3/8/1932 | See Source »

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