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...Parisian girls' club whose portals no man may pass-officially. Of course one manages to slip in, thus providing a thread to the tale and bringing pretty Danielle Darrieux (this time, in contrast to her star-crossed Marie Vetsera in Mayerling, a lively minx) a climax of illicit motherhood. Manhattan censors ordered an English subtitle indicating that Danielle and her young man (Raymond Gall) have been secretly married all along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...bring this grand new message of the inspirational values of open confession straight from the horse mouth of one Lady Wiggam to her own circle of friends. In one week end of sustained busybodying, Susan manages, by artful innuendo and a few lucky potshots, to disrupt the placidly illicit love life of her hostess, turn a well adjusted May-December marriage into a triangular mess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Durban, Natal, South Africa: The color bar is strictly enforced. . . . Illicit intercourse with native women renders any white liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Sailor's Friend | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...friend Gaure, a chemistry professor, to help him rig up a homemade wireless, to get news of the outside world. Before they knew it, both were involved in a far-flung spy system. Gaure was caught, tortured, shot. Later on Marc was arrested too, but only for running an illicit printing press. He and one of his partners, Hennedyck, a manufacturer who shut down his mill rather than let the Germans get his textiles, were sent to a German prison. Alain Laubigier refused to register with the authorities, led the life of a hunted criminal till he ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Front | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

First the automobile driver lures a College tag for illicit parking; he answers his summons but holds on to the ticket. Then away to the New Lecture Hall, leave the chariot on the street with the tag, date renewed in the winshield, and think no more about it. If an authority sees the car, he observes also that its owner has already been penalized and gives the matter no further thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTHORITIES TRAILING IN RACE WITH AUTO VIOLATORS | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

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