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Woman's Symphony One hundred assorted women got behind musical instruments in Manhattan last week and let themselves go. In her usual ministerial frock,* Conductor Ethel Leginska stood before them, driving, cajoling, exerting all her high-pitched energy toward making them realize, as she obviously did. that the début of a national Woman's Symphony Orchestra is a highly important occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Woman's Symphony | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

Benito Mussolini put on his gold embroidered frock coat, sword, trousers with gold stripes, decorations, hat like an admiral's only much gayer. It was an Italian holiday, newly named Lateran Treaty Day. Crowds thronged the Tiber's banks. Honored _ guests at the Vatican included Camilla Ratti, sister and nearest relative to the Pope, and Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti-Ugolini, the Pope's favorite niece, who named her daughter Maria Rio Pia in her uncle's honor. Bustling about was Monsignor Camillo Caccia-Dominioni, Master of the Papal Household, favorite secretary of Pius XI. Plump, jolly, much-loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholic Action | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

...depend, has disappeared. He is even more discomforted when the inventor reappears and proves himself to be a lunatic. While manipulating his concern, Powell is harassed by the incompetence of his staff, a fat Hebrew whom he names Col. Ginsberg (George Sidney) and a suave dummy president equipped with frock coat and toupe (Guy Kibbee), and by the justified suspicions of an attractive brunette (Evelyn Brent), whom he is prepared to marry at the end of the picture. High Pressure, well directed by Mervyn LeRoy, is rapid, trivial, dextrous and absurd. Good shot: Powell, rewarded with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 8, 1932 | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

...unaware of Col. Mann, who regularly gorged himself on gargantuan meals at the Lotos Club or at Delmonico's, kept an expensive house on Riverside Drive and a summer home at Lake George, strutted about at opera and horse show, a conspicuous figure with his whiskers, flaming red tie, frock coat, plug hat, and heavy walking stick which could make a highly effective bludgeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Gossiper Silenced | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Senores los Diputados were a little uncertain what they should wear on this memorable occasion; costumes varied from full evening dress, frock coats, dinner jackets to sack suits. Just before the Presidential Promise was administered occurred one of those little contretemps so distressing to orderly Nordic minds. The shrill voice of Senora Alcala Zamora rose in loud lament in the lobby: "But I tell you Niceto forgot and went off with my tickets in his pockets!" Generals rushed to the rescue. Breathing hard. Senora Alcala Zamora eventually found a seat in the press gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: First President | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

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