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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another. She is known as "The Savior of the Alamo" because she once put up $65,000 (later repaid by the State) to keep commercial structures away from Texas' shrine. By the time she married Newspaperman Hal Sevier in 1906, Clara Driscoll had written two novels (The Girl of La Gloria, In the Shadow of the Alamo) and a musical comedy (Mexicana)* which the Brothers Shubert produced on Broadway. Democratic National Committeewoman Clara Driscoll Sevier gave liberally to the 1932 Roosevelt-Garner campaign fund. Husband Hal Sevier became Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Chile. They were divorced last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Jack Garner's Friends | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...play bridge; in Belgium, where they are polishing their bicycles preparing for the 28th annual cycle tour next week; in Stockholm, where midnight concerts are about to begin and crowds are flocking to see Bette Davis in Dark Victory; in Rome, where they are laughing at a boy-meets-girl comedy called Two Dozen Red Roses and singing a tuneful song called It Was Folly; in Russia, where football squads are drilling for the summer season; in London, where the most popular song is Deep Purple. Over the crisis-worn continent last week the people were moving under cloudless skies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Springtime in Europe | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Country. Leaving the wheatlands for the cow country, the royal train stopped briefly next morning at Medicine Hat, Alberta, where the Queen became so interested in a girl band from Big Sandy, Montana, 350 miles away, that the King was obliged to remind her that the train was waiting. At Calgary 200,000 Canadians and U. S. citizens up for a good time gave the royal couple a rousing western welcome. Two thousand Blackfeet, Sarcees, Piegans and Stonys whooped and hollered in their most intimidating manner while their chiefs conferred on George VI a new title: "Great Chief Albino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Isn't It Wonderful? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...fluffy ruffles and "cheesecake." Scenes of pre-War Rector's, of Delmonico's on New Year's Eve with Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell, a medley of old Ziegfeld Follies tune hits, tincture sex with nostalgia. Waddling souvenir of the past is onetime Glamor Girl Fritzi Scheff gurgling Kiss Me Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revelry by Night | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...blast and Ko-Ko's song I've got a little list. Sets are far handsomer than any ever seen on the Savoyard stage. Sound recording is approximately perfect. On close inspection, cinemaddicts will note that the Mikado's story conforms strictly to Boy-Meets-Girl pattern; and that Gilbert & Sullivan have not yet been topped by Tin Pan Alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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