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...cronies idolized him, thought him a dayspring from on high, a light to lighten his people. But young Solal's fatal beauty kindled passion in Adrienne, Gentile wife of the French consul. Discovered, they fled to Italy. Old Uncle Saltiel, sent after them, persuaded Solal away from his inamorata, thought he had left him safe in boarding school. But Solal wanted a better school: he ran away and wandered the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lion of Judah | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

Paramount invariably gives Director Lubitsch expert casts and this time he had Herbert Marshall for the role of a romantic crook, Miriam Hopkins for the crook's accomplice and inamorata, and Kay Francis for the patrician lady they set out to rob. Miss Francis obligingly makes Herbert Marshall her secretary and then falls in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...Passage, by Robert Lord, is several notches above the Warner average. An escaped murderer (William Powell) meets a charming lady (Kay Francis) in a Hongkong bar. They fall in love. The next time they meet, on shipboard, the murderer is on his way to be hanged. His inamorata expects to die very shortly of a weak heart. Each learns of the other's predicament. They do not reveal their knowledge to each other. Before they part at San Francisco, they gaily engage to meet on New Year's Eve at Agua Caliente. A quiet, sharp, romantic tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 24, 1932 | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

Those entertaining brothers, the Royal Rumanians, were at it again last week. King Carol II, still somewhat tender on the jaw where Prince Nicholas had punched him, forced a decision through the Bucharest Supreme Court that the marriage of slack-chinned Prince Nicholas and his buxom inamorata, Mme Jana Lucia Deletej, was nonexistent. Not satisfied with that, the Bucharest District Court immediately annulled the marriage, leaving the grave judges in the embarrassing legal position of having invalidated something which never occurred. For good measure the Rumanian Supreme Army Council sentenced Prince Nicholas to two months imprisonment "for marrying a commoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Mr, Brosteanu | 12/21/1931 | See Source »

Actor Lunt, brought face to face with his pre-War inamorata, exerts all his gayety, willfulness, passion in an attempt to gain just one more night with her. He even goes to her house, bringing sophistry to bear on her brainy husband. In defeat, like Hannibal in The Road to Rome, he is victorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 23, 1931 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

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