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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Critic George Jean Nathan's newly-published Intimate Notebooks revealed that $500,000 earned by Strange Interlude enabled Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill to gratify two lifelong desires: 1) have shirts tailored in London; 2) own a carriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 26, 1932 | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

OPIUM, THE DIARY of AN ADDICT-Jean Cocteau-Longmans, Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cocteau's Fixative | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

Grief-stricken Jean Harlow had cause to wonder whether her career in cinema would be destroyed. But without Jean Harlow, work on her new film could not proceed for long. A week after Paul Bern's death, she made herself up as a "siren," went to work in Red Dust, an Indo-Chinese film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Death in Hollywood | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

Best Years is a drab little play about a woman who spends the best years of her life taking care of a neurotic mother when she might be enjoying the gayety of a honeymoon in Siberia. So strong is the hold of Mrs. Davis (Jean Adair) on her daughter Cora (Katherine Alexander) that Fred Barton (Harvey Stephens) has to do his courting under her watchful eye. When Cora starts for a dance with him Mrs. Davis collapses in the footlights. During the entire third act Mrs. Davis lies unconscious on a sofa in full view of the audience while other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 19, 1932 | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...melodrama. The Man Who Reclaimed His Head is often exciting, but it is more often tiresome. Last week's audiences applauded Claude Rains's bombastic interpretation of the hapless monster, almost hissed the polished villainies of Stuart Casey, but most likely it was pretty Jean Arthur who gave them all their pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: The Man Who Reclaimed His Head. | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

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