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...panoply and poohbah of a Hollywood super-colossal. Nina is a Tsarist floozy who traipses to Vienna breaks several hearts, lies like a lady for the man she loves, fades out with a bullet in her heart. What distinguishes Nina Petrovna is that Nina is Junoesque Isa Miranda, whose gaunt loveliness combines the allure of Marlene Dietrich with the expressiveness of Greta Garbo. With Garbo vacationing on the Mediterranean (TIME, March...
...Sterner Galleries Arthur Kaufmann, capable and colorful German emigre, showed character studies of the late George Gershwin, Luise Rainer as a plain and pensive 17-year-old in Düsseldorf. At the Georgette Passedoit Gallery were 23 oddities by a healthily impudent 21-year-old Danish girl named Isa Neuhaus. In the U. S. for one year, she has had 20-minute sittings with Bishop Manning, painted subtly all in mauve; Leslie Howard, all in green; Mayor LaGuardia...
Away from London last week slunk snubbed Emperor Haile Selassie (see p. 18), but glad British hands were extended by King Edward and many another in London to His Highness Sheik Sir Hamad bin Isa al Khalifa, ruler of the Bahrein Islands in the Persian Gulf of Iran...
...outstanding Eli performers are Captain Norris Hoyt in the 440 and the backstroke and Johnny Macionis, Sophomore star, who is ISA champion in the 220-yard race and is also a consistently good performer in the breaststroke...
...Homer Cummings calls her husband (6 ft. 2) 'Pinkie.' . . . Isa Glenn, novelist, meeting Mrs. Johnson at tea, blurted out: 'Oh, Johnson's all right, just so it's no relation of that terrible general' -and spent the rest of the afternoon searching for a happy ending...