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...writer, the foreign editor and the female managing editor of a reasonably LIFE-like picture magazine tour Mexico, Cuba and Brazil, gathering orchid buds where they may for a good-neighborly musical revue. Photographer Phillip Terry, Writer Audrey Long and her fiance (Marc Cramer) sweat out the love interest; Editress Eve Arden is primed with metropolitan wisecracks; Editor Robert Benchley explains the samba, and Ernest Truex adds an eerily funny moment as a mad millionaire who likes to cry hopefully to his guests, "Happyhappy-HAPPY!" In the course of their work the tourists watch a Mexican peasant wedding and several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 12, 1945 | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Moss Hart's play idea is 18-carat. A hard-working editress of a fashion magazine, unhappy despite her enviable job and a devoted married lover, goes to get herself psyched. With that the play dissolves into a psychoanalytical circus with four revolving rings. The scene shifts from the psychoanalyst's office to the Allure office, to the young lady's dreams, and back again. Playwright Hart puts anything on the stage that he wishes?a love affair, sophisticated neuro-drama. fashion parades, farce, musical dream fantasias. And the lovely editress learns that she really wants to be less editorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Lady in the Dark has swarthy Victor Mature, latest in Hollywood's series of almost outrageously beautiful young men, who appears in every costume the feminine audience could wish, from breech clout to dress suit. Prepossessing young Macdonald Carey is the editress' eventual sweetheart. And Danny Kaye is very funny as a pansy fashion photographer who in true Cecil Beatonish style photographs a suit of armor with a blue chiffon scarf wrapped around its metal neck and stuffed doves perched on its shoulders. In the circus dream he scores the comic hit of the show with a jabberwockian song consisting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...hazard, Northwestern co-eds are prohibited from smoking in their sorority houses. In the course of agitation for the ban's removal, Jean Van Evera, woman's editor of the Daily Northwestern, pored over the back files of the student publication. As a result of her search, Editress Van Evera was able to give the world a hitherto unknown bit of Willardiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Like Any Other Girl | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Collinsville, Ill., a contest was held on "Homecoming Day" to find the biggest liar in Southern Illinois. A $20 gold piece was awarded one Ernestine Smith, editress of the Columbia (Illinois) Star. The lie: her auto fell into a mudhole, sank in three weeks to Singapore, China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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