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...most interesting member of the Nowak family is young Manya (Anna Sten), who presently becomes not only the heroine of Tony Barrett's book but also its inspiration. By the time Dora Barrett comes back, Tony is ready to ask for a divorce but by this time Manya, convinced that her attachment for Tony has reached an impasse, has married the loutish young Pole (Ralph Bellamy) to whom her father has promised her. The situation explodes suddenly on their wedding night. Enraged when he finds Manya weeping and reluctant, her drunken bridegroom rushes out to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...packs David off to earn his living; violent Aunt Betsey (Edna May Oliver), who befriends David and beats such visitors as ride donkeys to her Dover cottage; Mr. Dick (Lennox Pawle), her shrewd, erratic house guest who was always getting the head of King Charles I into his writings; Dora (Maureen O'Sullivan) who uses the account book for sketching and whose spaniel lives in a pagoda; Agnes (Madge Evans), whom David marries when Dora dies-all these and a dozen other great Dickensian characters live and move and have their being in this picture. Best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 28, 1935 | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...competent bombster and assassin in his youth, Joseph Stalin has provided Russia with the most thoroughly assassin-proof government it has ever had. Not since 1918 have Bolshevik leaders of any consequence been murdered, and Miss Dora Kaplan's shot at Nikolai Lenin in that year was not fatal. Last week the hearts of millions of White Russians leaped high. "It has begun!" they exclaimed. "At last Communists have begun to shoot their leaders in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Farewell, Dear Friend | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Divorced- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, Earl Russell, 62, mathematician, philosopher, writer; by Countess Dora Russell; in London. Grounds: adultery (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 3, 1934 | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

That was too much for a Court ever suspicious of collusion in divorce proceedings. The trial was adjourned while the King's Proctor pondered "Rose v. a Rose." Last week hearings were resumed with the Proctor declaring for full inquiry into Dora Russell's own extra-marital adventures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rose v. a Rose | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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