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Yearning, slightly throaty Cornell, with her great eyes and grand manner, is chiefly a personality; Helen Hayes, deft and versatile, is every inch an actress. Cornell, in a sense, never seemed young; Helen Hayes rose to fame in girlish and flapper parts, came of age as Maggie Wylie in a revival of What Every Woman Knows, slowly gained enough poise and stature to triumph thrice as queen-as Cleopatra, Mary of Scotland, Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Grandma Writes a Book | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...roused such public excitement that the War Office sent soldiers with rifles to keep unauthorized persons off the landing quay at Folkestone. Up in rock-ribbed Scotland the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Patrick Joseph Dollan, snorted: "It is simply disgusting that this attention should be paid to a little flapper who really ought to have her pants spanked instead of getting publicity." When Unity was delayed two days in reaching Folkestone, popular excitement touched fever pitch and her father, Insurance Tycoon Lord Redesdale, was offered ?5,000 for a statement by one of the big London dailies. "I wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tycoon's Daughters | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...newspapers' airplanes, had crashed and burned to death. Lady Plunket, 38, was the only child of Actress Fannie Ward who, at 66, still weighs 100 pounds, still wears size twelve clothes, still advocates her "cult of youth." and is known in England as a U. S.-born "perennial flapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Mothers & Children | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Capitalizing on news-accounts of John Nance Garner's criticism of his wife's new hat ("It makes you look like a flapper"-TIME, Nov. 29), Manhattan's publicity-wise Arnold Constable & Co. dispatched a representative to Mrs. Garner with a dozen matronly hats, offered them to her as a gift. Valued at $169, all size 23. the assortment included a black felt brimmed model with green, lavender and red bows, a toque with iridescent feathers and odd-angled quills, a visor brimmed type with veil in front, a bumper roller with wraith of veil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

When his 61-year-old wife appeared in a high-crowned hat, John Nance Garner declared: "It makes you look like a flapper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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