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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gorgeous Bachelor Girl Gail Allen (Madeleine Carroll) was doing just about as well bossing a Fifth Avenue department store as British Cinemactress Carroll is doing in U. S. pictures. Gail knew all the answers and none of them was masculine. But when cocksure Bill Burnett (self-consciously cute Fred MacMurray) blew in from Bali like a tropical monsoon, scripters were hard put to it to keep him from thawing icy Gail too fast, convincing her too soon that woman's place is in the home when not in the maternity ward. Vainly trying to stave off this inevitable ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...desperately to resign. For several weeks he has refused even to pretend to work. But puppets do not resign; a string is pulled and they disappear. Last week the Northern Wang, jealous of the Southern Wang, whose super-puppet regime would eclipse his, was reported "in retirement" in the gorgeous Summer Palace of the C'hing Emperors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Wang, Wang | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Blazing with gorgeous costumes, Act II fanfares a diamond-hatted, golden-suited, golden-shod Bill Robinson into view as Harlemperor of Japan. On a pair of Sullivan heels stutter-toed Mr. Robinson thereupon steps into character to show that at 60 he is still the noblest tap dancer of them all. After that The Hot Mikado is 98° in the shade-and no shade-till the curtain falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...civil war with greater popular participation and solemn pomp than anywhere else in the world, were back to normal last week, with His Eminence Pedro Cardinal Segura officiating. Once again all Seville turned out, cigaret workers from the factory of Carmen in Bizet's famed opera shouldering their gorgeous, gold, bejeweled Madonna of Victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Franco to the Sea | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...Gorgeous though the Greek Orthodox ceremony was, with the Archbishop of Athens and 40 bishops officiating in dazzling, bejeweled regalia-Greek guests in the Cathedral seemed to be chiefly fascinated by the fact that the pale blue satin Paris gown of the Duchess of Kent was closed all the way down the front with a zipper. After the Orthodox wedding the royal pair were joined in holy matrimony a second time by a Lutheran pastor from Germany, then went to be legally married by civil authorities and the bride was recorded to have changed her name from the German Frederika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Paul & Margaritas | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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