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Last week at the Diamond Horseshoe, Mae Murray again began dancing the Merry Widow waltz, with Georges Fontana of the sleek '20s dancing team of Moss & Fontana. The featherweight toast of the 1908 Follies has long since moved into the middleweight division, but as she swooped, swirled and was flung through the air the house came down, and Billy Rose knew that he had a waltzing hit and the nostalgic smash of his career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Merry Murray | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...face of bans placed on demonstrations for or against any belligerents, a wild anti-Italian riot and shouts of "Long live France!" greeted Baron di Fontana Degli Angeli Gioacchino Scaduto Mendola, new Italian Minister to Ecuador, when he presented his credentials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Swing to U. S. | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...more than bad blood, hot words. Last week both sides got their dander up over a city-wide poll on a $7,500,000 bond issue to build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson beside the Mississippi. Following day City Market Master James O. Stubbs and State Representative Lawrence J. Fontana, both Dickmann men, marched with two friends into the office of City Recorder of Deeds John P. English, head of the anti-Dickmann faction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Little Fight | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

When Antony, a rich, chattering but intelligent expatriate, discovers Victoria, she finds him disturbingly attractive. Antony is happily married, tells her all about his wife, Fontana. Antony falls in love with her, and her allegiance to Sorrel begins to waver. When Sorrel makes senile love to her, when the colony breaks up in mutual recrimination, Victoria in despair debauches herself with one man after another, but never with Antony. Antony leaves for the U. S. on business. Victoria discovers she is pregnant, makes herself ill by overdoses of pills. Fontana comes to find her, is taking her to a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neo-Romantic | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Edwards Thacher, 3b. s.s., Rich Wood, s.s. 3b., Snow Devens, p. 1b., Barber Ware, c.f. l.f., Mack Lupien, r.f. 2b., Morton McCaffrey, l.f. r.f., Arthur Gleason, 1b. c., Weeman Fincke, c. p., Miller or Thompson HARVARD TRINITY Mays, 2b. c.f., Vannie Mays, 2b. c., Phippen Wood, s.s. 3b., Fontana Devens, c.f. 1b., Bockwinkel Lupien, r.f. p., Adams McCaffrey, l.f. r.f., Bell Gleason, 1b. s.s., Kelly Fincke, c. 2b., Elliott Taylor, p. l.f., Carey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NINE PLAYS POSTPONED GAME WITH DARTMOUTH | 6/17/1932 | See Source »

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