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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire which damaged the Eden Musee,- famed waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 15, 1932 | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...carrying a million dollars worth of gold ingots across the water. Previous rate: $1,875. At the same time all big New York banks flatly refused to act as agents for the shipment of gold coins to Europe. France, for all her touted gold standard, will not give Jean Frenchman any gold coins. Her central bank will pay gold in nothing less than $8,000 lots. Therefore the French peasantry, which has taken the place of Mother India as the world's most avaricious gold hoarder, has organized innumerable syndicates to buy the $8,000 ingots and divide them into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Eagles to France | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...story itself remains about as it was on the stage, except that Jean (Ina Claire) has been made more important than Polaire (Madge Evans). The picture starts when Jean returns from Europe, eager to make friends with money. Double-crossing her companions, she tries first to steal the aged "fiance" of Schatze (Joan Blondell), then appropriates a vain pianist who has taken a passing fancy to Polaire. Finally she meets the father of Polaire's most devoted admirer and in-veigles him into matrimony. There follows the one scene in which the cinema does not quite measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Greeks had a Word for Them | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

Loew's State-"The Beast of the City," Jean Harlow and Walter Huston both...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 2/11/1932 | See Source »

...cuts from the 1483 "Nuremberg Bible" are the oldest objects present. There is an impression in its second state of Rembrandt's etching "St. Peter and St. John at the Gate of the Temple". The seventeenth century French portrait engravers are represented by Edelinck and Pierre Drevet in their "Jean Andre" and "Andre Rercules" respectively. Prints from the studies of Hogarth, Barlom, and Oadry are also on display...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/11/1932 | See Source »

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