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One of the chief problems in inventing a picture in which all three Barrymores could act was to think of one in which the brothers would not offend the public by pretending sexual interest in their sister. Rasputin not only solves this problem but gives two of the Barrymores a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

Reave Thurso, with his mother and lamed brother Mark, lives on the coastal farm left by his father who killed himself when he could not make it pay. His limestone quarry buildings lie in decay; only a rusty cable, stretched across the canyon over the farm, hums in the air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Harrowed Marrow | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Young Sinners (Fox). Thomas Meighan quit the film business in 1929, spent a year travelling around the world, playing golf, meeting people. He found leisure boring and the Fox company thought this play, which it had on file, would give him just what he wanted to do. He wears corduroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

There are only 40,000 people in Broach, 200 miles north of Bombay. But Broach, in the heart of the cotton district, hums with spinning and weaving mills, gins, oil presses.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

To find Miss Walker playing the ingenne is a surprise, but she does the conventional part about as well as anyone could. James Patterson, her lover, without much previous experience, is good enough for two acts, but he falters in the finale when he gets his first real chance. Richard...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/10/1930 | See Source »

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