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...made the best of things. Soon they were all sorry for Margot, for Lias's passion turned to hate; he beat her, fathered another woman's child, finally left for California. When nothing was heard of him for years he was declared legally dead, and Brother Jasper married Margot. Lonzo chopped his foot nearly off one day and died of blood-poisoning. Cean mourned him well and truly, later married a preacher. A letter came from Lias in California, full of cheerful talk about the presents he was soon bringing home. Margot and Jasper were horrified but there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crackers, Old-Style | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

Supernatural (Paramount). In the profession of mind-reading the cinema has found a fine new target with gaudy trimmings. The hero of The Great Jasper was an astrologer who was best acquainted with the stars on brandy bottles; in The MindReader Warren William was violent, spurious but nonetheless likable in the turban of a phony medium. Unlike either. Paul Bavian (Allan Dinehart) of Supernatural is a lecherous and cowardly crook who ends up where he belongs, at the end of a rope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...cast: Sweeney Todd, R. E. Clement '32; Mrs. Lovett, R. J. Frescoln 1G.; Mrs. Oakley, G. G. Johnson '34; Johauno Oakley, C. J. Fleming, Jr. '33; Jasper Oakley, C. F. Goodale '34; Mark Ingestrie, W. M. Hoyl '33; Colonel Jeffery, L. L. Filstrup 4K.S.: Dr. Lupin, A. B. Gardiner III, '33; Keckiel Smith, G. H. Damon '34; and Javvis Williams, J. G. Patterson '35. The business manager of the play is W. T. Piper '34; the stage manager G. D. Leahoy '33; and the property manager H. E. Howe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DELTA UPSILON WILL PRODUCE SWEENEY TODD THIS FRIDAY | 3/22/1933 | See Source »

...Great Jasper (RKO) is Jasper Horn (Richard Dix), a swaggering horsecar conductor, burdened with a solemn, shrewish wife and blessed with a gracious though dangerous mistress. The mistress is dangerous because she is the wife of Jasper's employer. When the employer finds out, Jasper goes off to Atlantic City, sets up as an astrologer "for women only," wonders light-heartedly why his wife, who comes to Atlantic City also and independently opens a hot-dog stand, disapproves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 27, 1933 | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

Volume X of the Dictionary of American Biography was published, running from J to L, beginning with Soldier William Jasper, who recovered and remounted the shot-down flag in the face of a British bombardment at Fort Sullivan (now Fort Moultrie) in 1776. It ends with Thomas Oliver Larkin, last U. S. consul at Monterey, capital of Mexican California. Between are 674 giants and lesser mortals who made U. S. history. Chief giant: Thomas Jefferson, allotted 37 columns. Others: John Jay, John Paul Jones, Robert Marion LaFollette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 16, 1933 | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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