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Hardly responsible was Popularizer Roosevelt for a less fortunate innovation in Green Bay, Wis. So interseted ina lecture she was giving were two women who collected admissions at the door that they welcomed the offer of two unidentified men to take over their duties, returned to find the men had walked off with the evening's receipts, which Mrs. Roosevelt had intended for charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Distinguished Visitors | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...many case, the show is slow starting, slow in development, and uninspiring in denouncement. Ina Claire as the matron is easily the outstanding asset, but she might do well to brush up on her lines...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

...males. Arthur Murray has a back door and private elevator for timid souls who do not like to be seen entering. But such people as Paul Whiteman, Margaret Bourke-White, the Duke of Windsor, Myrna Loy, Prince Louis Ferdinand of Germany, James Roosevelt, Lowell Thomas, Elizabeth Arden and Ina Claire are not ashamed of having gone in the front way. Altogether the school handles 3,000 pupils a day. As result of a tie-up with Fleischmann's yeast (a mail order course for 81 yeast labels), Arthur Murray has acquired 350,000 correspondence students since last March. House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Murray's Steps | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...producers were running the risk of theatrical ptomaine. But 1937-38 was eupeptic. No really bad play landed on its feet, though several got passing marks almost entirely through star acting: Susan and God because of Gertrude Lawrence, Whiteoaks because of Ethel Barrymore, Once Is Enough because of Ina Claire. Further, it was a season in which, from start to finish, the critics acted as pacesetters: No-play they panned became a hit, and none they cheered turned out a flop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Exit Smiling | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

Once Is Enough seemed even more dated than deft, appeared at times to be celebrating the love life of ice cubes. The play was chiefly enjoyable for the purring, nimble, coroneted acting of Ina Claire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New & Old Plays in Manhattan | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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