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Queer People, by Authors Carroll & Garrett Graham, is a novel which satirizes Hollywood in almost libelous terms. Its horrid characters are drawn so plainly from life that they set Hollywood's hair on end. The hero is a drunken and unscrupulous libertine who, while performing ably as "professor"' in a sporting house, receives a splendid tip from a producer whose identity Hollywood sophisticates claim to know. The heroines of Queer People are insistently immoral and the scene of their depravities seems to combine the worst features of Sodom and Gomorrah. The uproar of Hollywood's bigwigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Queer People | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Married. Miss Rosamond W. Thomas, Boston socialite, cousin of U.S. Ambassador to Italy John Work Garrett; and Count Edward Oppersclorff of Germany; at San Michele, Isle of Capri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

Heading the counsel for the defense were venerable, silver-haired, massive Garrett William McEnerney, once Jim Flood's personal attorney, and stocky, nervous Theodore Roche. Their arguments were that the first Mrs. Flood would not have adopted her husband's bastard, that Jim Flood would have given an adopted daughter all the affection and kindness which Mrs. Gavin said proved she was his real daughter. Thus did they refute old Flood retainers, coachmen, gardeners, nurses & neighbors who testified he had often called Constance May "My baby," "My little daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Jim Flood's Girl | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...spruce up pudgy prospective preachers, to make them fit and healthy, President Frederick Carl Eiselen of Garrett Biblical Institute in Evanston, Ill. announced last week that henceforth his divinity students must take periodic health examinations throughout their four-year course. To preach well, said he, one must look well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Anti-Pudge | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Sued for Separation, Graham McNamee, radio announcer, "talking reporter" for Universal Newsreel; by Mrs. Josephine Garrett McNamee; in Manhattan. They eloped in 1921 (by means of a ladder) after a romance which began when they sang together in a concert at Bronxville, N. Y. Announcer McNamee said the separation was not by mutual consent, did not know what the charges were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 1, 1931 | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

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