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...began when Benjamin P. Schulberg, Paramount's Western managing director of production, then associate producer, signed her to make silent cinemas in 1925. She was then a well-stuffed Brooklyn redhead with a Coney Island character. Two years later, when she had been the incarnation of Author Elinor Glyn's It, she was the most famed cinemactress in the U. S. She had her name made into a big electric sign for her father to hang outside his Brooklyn restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bow Out | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Died. Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, 68, survivor of the Titanic disaster in 1912 with his wife. Lady Duff-Gordon (Lucy Sutherland), onetime London and Manhattan modiste (Lucile) who is a sister of Novelist Elinor Glyn; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Already censors have dealt sternly with Mickey Mouse. He and his associates do not drink, smoke or caper suggestively. Once a Mickey Mouse cartoon was barred in Ohio because the cow read Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks. German censors ruled out another picture because "The wearing of German military helmets by an army of cats which oppose an army of mice is offensive to national dignity" (TIME, July 21). Canadian censors ruled against another brand of sound cartoon because a leering fish in it writhed up to a mermaid and slapped her on the thigh. But censorship is only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Regulated Rodent | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Carnegie International jury awarded first prize ($1,500) to Henri Matisse. This year it was Matisse's turn to award the prize. He gave it to Pablo Ruiz Picasso's calm masterly portrait of Mme Picasso. The other judges: Glyn Philpot of Britain; Karl Sterrer, Austria; Bernard Karfiol, Horatio Walker, Ross Moffett, U. S., made no objection. Most critics' lists of the ten greatest living painters contain both Picasso and Ma-tisse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Carnegie Show | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

General Hon. Sir Herbert Lawrence, a managing partner Glyn, Mills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Miracle | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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