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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joshing with reporters before the stately wedding of his daughter, Catherine. He pretended to know nothing of the plans. He perspired, showed his gold teeth, welcomed the guests, pointed out presents, laughed a lot and made jokes. Now and then he quietly put his arm around the slender, highstrung girl of 24, who, on the bright Saturday forenoon, became Mrs. Francis Joseph Quillinan. At the Albany Cathedral, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan performed the ceremony and transmitted a special blessing from Pius XI. Afterwards, a father's natural emotions on his daughter's wedding day were merged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Brown Derby | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...word the police were suspected with good reason of having subjected the 22-year old bulb tester to a scandalous third degree. She, Miss Irene Savage, a cheerful, comely girl, was recently arrested and acquitted of the charge of "indecent conduct" in Hyde Park with Sir Leo Chiozza Money, 58, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to.David Lloyd George. In dismissing the case the judge severely rebuked the constables concerned and fined them jointly ?10 ($48). The astounding and scandalous aftermath came a fortnight later when Miss Savage was called upon at her place of work by Inspector Clark and Policewoman Wilde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Damnable Shame! | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...dreary talent for unnecessary heroics. Herein he makes his too-customary stage appearance. Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate. Then no longer is he a modest nonentity, almost incapable of thought or speech. Awkwardly demoniac instead, he kidnaps the girl of his lamentable dreams while she is in the act of marrying a rogue, takes her away upon a yacht, causes her fiance to appear in his true colors and marries her with affectionate alacrity in the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Play in Manhattan: Jun. 18, 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Coquette- DIXIE GIRL SHOOTS SELF WHEN FATHER SLAYS SE DUCER Strange Interlude- PROFESSOR'S DAUGHTER CHOOSES "HEALTHY MALE"- THIRD MAN LOOMS Melodrama The Trial of Mary Dugan- CHORINE HELD IN CLUBMAN'S DEATH The Silent House- CHINESE CRIME RING SOUGHT IN BOND THEFT Diamond Lil-GIRL FREED, BOW ERY CHIEF NABBED AS WHITE SLAVER Burlesque- SHE LOVED HIM BUT HE CHOSE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS AND NEARLY CLICKED ON BROAD WAY-GRAPHIC TRUE STORY The Bachelor Father- "THEY'RE MINE AND I LOVE THEM" CRIES WEALTHY LIBERTINE SEEING THREE HE SIRED Paris Bound- GIRL-WIFE RECON CILED, WILL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Headliners in Manhattan | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...object, that black-eyed mignon, Ardrington's adopted daughter. They employed for their villainous purposes thugs from London's underworld, and a beautiful Spanish matron whom they installed at the Ritz. But they had not reckoned with Martin's cool audacity, nor his marriageability, nor the girl he loved. And they had not reckoned with Oppenheim's suave agility in leading his knaves through smooth intricacies to their just desserts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suave Agility | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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