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She had. Just as he stepped from his car at the door of the Italian embassy another car drew up, bearing King Albert and Princess Marie José. The blonde Princess, sobbing wildly, rushed forward and kissed her fiance passionately, to the huge delight of the Belgian populace.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Heir of Italy | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

On the trail of international wiretappers, murderers, kidnappers, he gumshoes in many disguises along the corridors of the fastest ocean liner afloat. Adroitly he deals with dictaphones, fake wireless messages, the poisoned needle springing from the clasp of a cigaret box. When at last the Master Criminal lies dead and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

Strictly Dishonorable. In a speak-easy whose murals luridly depict the Bay of Naples, a gentle-spoken maid from Mississippi (Muriel Kirkland) is wooed in ripe Neapolitan style by a singer of the Italian nobility (Tullio Carminati). She scarcely objects, for she has just had an altercation with her boorish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Upstairs a policeman enters (Edward J. McNamara). He has been sent by the indignant fiance, but is speedily pacified at the mention of liquors. Says the girl: "Why, policemen never drink, do they?" Says the bluecoat: "It just seems like never."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Actually, as Al Draper, George Cohan is not interested in getting intimate with Mazie. He has been informed in the first act that his ward, the daughter of a defunct pal, has been mysteriously murdered. Her debauched fiance has been acquitted in a trial. Al Draper, anxious to bring the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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