Word: davision
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usually accurate, TIME errs in its March 28 issue in referring to Mr. Justice Branson [the London judge who decided against Bette Davis in her contract difficulties with Warner Brothers] as "His Honor." English usage confers this title on a County Court Judge, the correct reference to a Supreme Court...
Meantime the Pennsylvania Democratic machine was experiencing a split of its own. Mr. Kennedy's principal opponent for the gubernatorial nomination is the regular Democratic designee, Lawyer Charles Alvin Jones of Pittsburgh. Running for the Senatorial nomination on the old line Democratic slate is Labor's good friend...
What stormy Cinemactress Bette Davis likes better than anything else are cinema roles she can get her claws into. Last week Bette took a disdainful look at the script of Author Faith Baldwin's Comet Over Broadway, said it reminded her of weak tea, flatly refused to play in...
Jezebel (Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent; TIME, March 28).
This small but vigorous "rebel" church, a vexation to the Presbyterian Church from which it split, was lately ordered by a Philadelphia court to give up its too-similar name (TIME, Jan. 31), but has continued to use it pending an appeal. Last week the rebel church was again thrown...