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Married. Max Adelbert Baer, 26, pugilist; and Mary Ellen Sullivan. 32, manager of Washington's New Willard. Hotel Coffee Shop; in Washington. D. C. Fisticuffer Baer had previously been reported engaged to Mary Duke, Mary Kirk Brown, June Knight, Edna Dunham, Sally Rand, Bee Starr, Shirley La Belle, Judith Allen, Olive Beck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Jul. 8, 1935 | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...granted that whoever writes them was not developed up to the point of appreciating poetry. You published a review of Ogden Nash's last book with a picture of John Chamberlain and his wife, and the story of Mr. Chamberlain's literary rise. You even said that Edna Millay wasn't so good! Ho, hum. Does your reviewer like Mother Goose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 1, 1935 | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

Joan Crawford's big-boned, over-dieted frame, breezing in & out of clothes, has the appeal of cold turkey. Her laborious refinement and sincerity are expertly relieved by the acidities of Edna May Oliver. The plot: Robert Montgomery, non-marrying lady-killer, is talked into marrying Joan Crawford. Because he cannot stop lady-killing, Joan piously makes him an apparent cuckold in public. This reforms him and, in what passes for high breeding in Hollywood, these two snarl, mutter, sneer, whine, shout their love at one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 24, 1935 | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

Born. To Lynwood ("Schoolboy") Rowe, 23, ace pitcher of Detroit's American League baseball team, and Edna May Rowe: a son, their first child; in Detroit. Weight: 4 Ib. Next day Father Rowe yielded only three hits as he beat Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 24, 1935 | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...vendettas are a merchandising tradition, were at it again as soon as their doors opened the morning after the Supreme Court's decision. In one day's skirmish cigarets at Macy's dropped from $1.14 per carton to 64? - of which 60? represented the Federal tax. Edna Ferber's Come and Get It sank from $2.50 per copy to $2.04. Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, a $3 volume, opened at $2.82 the first day, closed at $2.64, plummeted to $1.83 before the weekend. Modern Library editions, usually retailed at 95? each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: NRAftermath | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

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