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Dancers in the Dark (Paramount). Blonde Miriam Hopkins makes her living by cavorting in a 10¢ dance hall. When partners are scarce, she entertains the customers by crooning. Her promiscuous past, well-known to practically every member of the orchestra, does not prevent its chief saxophone player (William Collier Jr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1932 | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

Ashenden was a boy when he first met Drimeld, then a struggling author, and Rosie, his beautiful barmaid wife. When the Driffields "shot the moon" (left town without paying their debts J, Ashenden thought he would never see them again. But years later, while a medical student in London, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beer & Skittles* | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

Lilies of the Field (First National). Pretty Corinne Griffith talks through her nose in her first sound-picture, playing in a manner saturated with melancholy the role of a young woman who, innocently compromised, has been divorced by her husband. She goes to work as a dancer in a roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 10, 1930 | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

To the world at large, the headmasters of three famed New England private schools are Dr. Samuel Smith Drury (St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H.), the Rev. Endicott Peabody (Groton School, Groton, Mass.) and Dr. William Greenough Thayer of St. Mark's School (Southborough, Mass.). To thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Twill | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

But after that, as the school year books say, comes life; and long before that have come gentlemen, successful in business, to guide the graduate from the groves to the market-place. Some will be bond salesmen, and wax financial in the company of State Street's rulers; some will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SIRENS | 5/22/1928 | See Source »

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