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...unhappy wives compensate themselves for their connubial discontent by going on shopping sprees; by taking up art, religion, morals, culture, society, politics; by being cute, girlish and kittenish, by nagging, by yammering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Meeting | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

...Norma Shearer in Strangers May Kiss. His qualifications, personal rather than technical, are partly the result of a respectable upbringing in Beacon, N. Y., partly of a long neck which causes his head to incline in a quizzical fashion. His eyes have the kind of crinkle that shopgirls call "cute." When his father, who was a vice president of New York Rubber Co. died, Robert Montgomery left Pawling School where he had learned to play good golf and tennis, took to driving a fertilizer truck. William Faversham let him play five small parts in The Mask and the Face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 1, 1931 | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

Mary Hay's father was Brig.-General Frank Merrill Caldwell, U. S. A. He was stationed at Fort Bliss, Tex. when she was bom 29 years ago. She was 17, spry and "cute" when she stepped into the chorus of Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic. In 1920 she married Cinemactor Richard Barthelmess, and the same year her charm and intelligence got her a part in Mr. Ziegfeld's Sally. The Hayday came in 1923, when she starred in her own show, Mary Jane McKane, and when she and spindleshanked Clifton Webb sang and danced to "Two Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 16, 1931 | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...that way, but the fact remains that his naivete and sweetness have become more pronounced in every picture he has made. If Lightnin' is any indication, the most racy and witty of U. S. public characters, colyumists, unofficial ambassadors to the world and licensed government jesters, is turning cute. Best shot: Lightnin' telling lies to a stranger he meets in a cabin in the woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 15, 1930 | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

Jonica is musical comedy at $3.50 top concerning a cute girl who journeys from a convent to attend a wedding in Manhattan. The complications, song cues and jokes are mainly occasioned by her unique naivete, in contrast with the worldly wisdom of a fat man and an actress whom she meets on the trip and re-encounters in her baffled adventures at a bachelor's apartment. The plot is furthered by a gunshot on a Pullman car, causing the fat comic to poke crude fun at a little girl who is traveling with her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 21, 1930 | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

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