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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Barbara bean monde. He becomes betrothed to an alluring blonde (Helen Vinson), learns enough polo to join a local team, buys a $600,000 share of her father's brokerage business, secures an immense mansion. complete with servants and secretary (Mary Astor) in which to entertain her friends. The members of the Cass family are congratulating themselves on having swindled a foolish parvenu when the admirer whom Polly Cass really likes shows them a copy of TIME, containing a picture of Bugs Ahearn and a story of his background under Crime. This document, a travesty on TIME, convinces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 5, 1933 | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...Freshmen, will celebrate the annual Jubilee tonight from 9.30 to 3 o'clock. Lilies and lavender and white spiraca will provide the colorful setting for the affair. Music will be furnished by Ruby Newman and his eighteen-piece orchestra while John M. Green '28 a popular song writer will entertain in the downstairs Commend Room. Dancing will take place in the large Dining Room and in the Rotunda, and supper will be served shortly after midnight in the Common Room, when Green will crook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS OF 1936 TO GIVE ANNUAL DANCE TONIGHT | 5/26/1933 | See Source »

...Friday evening it was announced last night. Green's Broadway fame was made by writing such songs as "Body and Soul," "Hello, My Lover, Goodbye," "I'm Yours," "Living in Dreams," "Rain, Rain, Go Away," and the more recent "You're Mine You." During orchestral intermissions, Green will entertain by playing in the downstairs Common Room of the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN TO PLAY FRIDAY AT FRESHMAN JUBILEE | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

...Peten was warping in to its berth the "Communists" would assemble at the quayside with hideous cries and frightening gestures. At the proper dramatic instant up would rush a squad of well-groomed police to disperse the howling Communists in the most efficient manner. All this would entertain and instruct Senor Welles during the irksome time that his baggage was being landed. The arrival and landing of Ambassador Welles was not quite according to schedule. For some unexplained reason he disembarked with Charge d'Affaires Edward L. Reed at the port captain's pier instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Peten's Passenger | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

quot;Wicked" Hearst. All these manifestations were simply the performance of a master journalist-showman run away with by his own technique. Strangely mingled in Hearst were patriotism, the sense of power and a desire to sell newspapers, with the last dominant. Hearst always loved to entertain, with his own stories, songs, guitar, clog-dancing as well as lavish parties. His newspaper formula added Money, Sex and Patriotism to the old imperial adage about Bread and Circuses. In 1896 he plumped for Bryan and free silver. After the Spanish war he discovered he had gone too far in his formulistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

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