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Elsa Maxwell's Hotel for Women (Twentieth Century-Fox) introduces two new screen personalities: luscious, lissom Linda Darnell (her real name), 15, of Dallas, Texas, and fat, frenetic, fiftyish Elsa Maxwell, corkjester extraordinary to Manhattan's café society. In a complicated little story about life & love in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

At a teachers' meeting in Cleveland, Professor Max D. Steer of Purdue University produced graphs of Adolf Hitler's clod-compelling voice. The wave frequency of the Führer's frenetic shouts in a typical sentence: 228 vibrations a second-eight more, according to one authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

The cheers of the frenetic fans were an unfamiliar sound to the ears of squat, hardworking, 43-year-old Bill Stewart. Professionally accustomed to gibes and catcalls during a decade of umpiring, his nearest approach to popular acclaim was that, while coaching baseball at Boston University, he had made a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off-Season Hero | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

After service in the navy, John Held, Jr., really went to work, From his drawing board streamed the young figures of the Plastic Age: flappers with as many frills showing as burlesque girls reveal in the early stages of the strip tease, vaseline-haired youths with bell-bottomed trousers, varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radio Collegian John Held Studied Youth In College of Experience | 3/26/1937 | See Source »

MARIE ANTOINETTE'S HENCHMAN- Meade Minnigerode-Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). "The dreadful sleazy, treacherous inside story'' of the French Revolution, told by a tireless researcher. Apparently unconcerned with economic or social forces. Biographer Minnigerode describes in overabundant detail the career of Baron de Batz. instigator of many of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recent Books: Fiction | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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