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Most enticing items on RKO's 54-picture list announced last week were three musicals-one starring Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire, two more in which they will appear separately. Singer Lily Pons will appear in an operetta drama called Street Girl, which may try to capitalize on the vogue for swing music. RKO proudly announced that The March of Time which it distributes had spread from 417 theatres to 7,236 in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Plots & Plans | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Best shot is Fred Astaire's monkey dressed in a sailor suit presenting a bouquet of flowers to Ginger Rogers. Most incredible is that of the admiral holding up inspection to have his guests watch Fred Astaire's sailor-boy band...

Author: By A. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...play three years ago when she was 14. Last week brought her her third U. S. championship. She had just returned from a tour of Europe on which she won the world's champion ship for women at Prague. A lissome, blue-eyed blonde, she resembles Cinemactress Ginger Rogers, who is also a table-tennis expert, No. 4 in Pacific Coast ranking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ballroom Tennists | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Irishmen, by & large, are poor sailors but excellent admirals. The late Earl Beatty was an Irish admiral. So is Edward VIII's chief naval aide-de-camp, Admiral Sir William ("Ginger") Boyle. Irish Dramatist Lord Dunsany's brother, Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, is Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, and the principal naval aide-de-camp to George V was an Admiral Kelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRISH FREE STATE: Recruiter | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Turning up unwashed and unshaved in Baltimore after being marooned in a Pittsburgh hotel, General Hugh S. Johnson told how he had lived for two days on beer and seltzer water, how one woman guest had taken a bath in three cases of ginger ale. Said he: "It was the most complete paralysis of a large city since the San Francisco fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell in the Highlands | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

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