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Charles Farrel and Janet Gaynor, the smile and simper team, have been recalled from a temporary limbo in order to be featured at the University in "The Man Who Came Back." Of course he had to go before he could return, so his rich, proud father had him shanghaied to Shanghai because he couldn't keep night clubs, blondes, and the bottle out of little Stevie's reach. Once there Stevie took a look at all that that quaint city had to offer in the way of gestures, and finally met up with his lost love who was occupying...

Author: By B. O.c., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/13/1931 | See Source »

...back to the Good Life. True, it's uphill work because of Stevie's lingering desire for strong stimulants and Angle's frequent bouts with the pipe, but love, running true to form triumphs, and a year later finds them both ensconsed in the ancestral mansion. Neither Farrel nor Gaynor sing...

Author: By B. O.c., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/13/1931 | See Source »

After a seven-month separation while the Fox publicity department astutely built up popular demand for their reappearance together, Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are brought together again in this rewrite of a stagey, old-fashioned melodrama. He is a rich man's wastrel son. She is a cabaret entertainer who is about to make a man of him, when they are separated. When they meet again she has become a drug addict and he is in the act of trading his fraternity ring for a bottle of booze. In a whirl of misty sentiment they work out each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

After seeing her in High Society Blues, Janet Gaynor's husband, Lydell Peck, San Francisco lawyer, advised her to accept no more such roles, told her the best way to make the Fox company feel her value was to leave them for a while. Though rumored to be quarreling with Peck, Janet Gaynor quarreled with Fox. She and her mother got on a boat for Honolulu. On the boat by accident she met Farrell, whom the public believed to have been Husband Peck's rival before her marriage. Afraid of scandal, Farrell took his bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 12, 1931 | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...almost staggering blow was given to the fireworks industry when the late Edward W. Bok's Ladies' Home Journal before the war against fireworks, printed scores of pictures of children maimed and blinded by them. Following this series Mayor William J. Gaynor signed an ordinance banning fireworks in New York City. Many another municipality, then many a state government followed suit. Then it was that fireworks manufacturers called Science to their aid to construct safer, saner displays. Sparklers of aluminum bronze which throws off incandescent but quick-cooling particles as it burns, were invented for children. Crackers were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fireworks | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

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