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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago Claire Ulrich, chorus girl met Charles E. Whitehurst, Baltimore. Md., theatreman, in Manhattan. They went to a hotel. In their room, without witnesses, they read to each other the marriage service from a prayer book, exchanged vows. On page 449 the girl wrote "Claire" and then "Charles." As man and wife they lived together briefly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Common-Law Marriage | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Carlton Curtis, 43, a rich bachelor, was standing at the corner of 54th Street and Broadway, Manhattan, when he saw an automobile bearing down recklessly upon a 17-year-old Negro girl. He snatched her back to safety, found her lithe and vivacious, befriended her. She said her name was Letitia Ernestine Brown. For her he bought a small house in Freeport, L. I., where, she said, he solemnly took her hand, declared himself her husband and her his wife. On her he settled a secret fund of $250,000. About Freeport the two were known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Common-Law Marriage | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...They snarl, they laugh, they fight, they cower, they die. Standing out among them is one who hopes for death. He has drowned cowardice with whiskey. He has nothing for which to live. On the eve of the attack there is sent to his company the brother of the girl he loves−the last person in the world he wants to see him. In the end it is the youngster, eager for life, who dies. The other goes out to face the attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Griffin, a Catholic couple who lived in a frame house near the railroad station of Texarkana, Tex., sent their daughter Corinne to the Sacred Heart Convent in New Orleans. When the girl, unanimously elected Queen of the Mardi Gras, went to California to work in the movies, her mother went along, let her change her name to Griffith. Now Corinne Griffith makes $500,000 a year and is said to have the most beautiful back in the world. She lives in an English house in Beverly Hills decorated in French & Italian styles. Married to Walter Morosco, son of famed Oliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Forest. Newsgatherers cornered Frau Einstein in the elevator of her home but could obtain little "color" for their stories. "Why? If you would only tell us why!" pleaded Frau Einstein. Lacking other Einstein comment, Berlin newspapers republished his one "joke" about relativity, viz.: "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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