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Died. Mrs. Anne Ector Pleasant, 56, wife of onetime Governor of Louisiana Ruffin Golson Pleasant; by accidentally drinking a poisonous antiseptic in a dark bathroom; in Shreveport, La. She was founder and headmistress of Pleasant Hall, swank girls' private school at Shreveport. Still pending was her suit against Senator Huey Pierce Long for causing her false arrest and calling her a "drunken cursing woman" when she sought to see public State records in the State Capitol at Baton Rouge (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...Rockefeller Milton; Gladys Vanderbilt, Countess Szechenyi; Anna Roosevelt Dall; Antoinette Heckscher. Lady Esher; Mary Van Rensselaer Cogswell Thayer; Dorothy Whitney Straight Elmhirst and many another rich & famed socialite in common sorrow. Dead at 70 lay the awesome ruler of each one's girlhood, Miss Chapin, founder and longtime headmistress of Manhattan's smartest school for girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Death of Miss Chapin | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

This year, housed in a five-story Georgian building on fashionable East End Avenue, Miss Chapin's school has 45 teachers, 380 students aged 6 to 18. Though in 1932 she relinquished her position as headmistress to her partner and housemate since 1911, Mary Cecilia Fairfax, sister of the 12th Baron Fairfax, Miss Chapin's ideas and personality have continued to dominate the school almost as strongly as ever. Even her passion for historic dates is still gratified. Beginning at 2,000 B.C., Chapin girls march down the centuries by memorizing some five dates each week. Almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Death of Miss Chapin | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...dramatic material, the brothel. Across its one majestic set parade half a dozen wenches, chipper lads and befuddled dignitaries in dinner jackets, a grafting commissioner, sinister "backers." a youth in love with an inmate, a twittering astrologist. a blundering social worker, a moody "Professor" (Eduardo Ciannelli), a baleful headmistress (Olga Baclanova ) who keeps everything under control until she falls in love with the Professor. It takes almost the whole third act for her to tell him her feelings, for him to spurn her politely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

...nearby college. She becomes pregnant. As soon as she reveals this fact to her classmates and teachers, Christa loses her position as stroke of the school crew but becomes such a celebrity among her classmates that she scarcely minds her demotion. Her father (Walter Connolly) is angry but her headmistress and swimming teacher (Kay Johnson) feels sympathetic. Even her seducer presently makes up his mind to marry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 22, 1934 | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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