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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Libeled Lady' smacks strongly of having been written specifically for the four positive personalities in it. To exploit to the full the talents of William Powell, Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy, and Myrna Loy, and make those four stars revolve in concentric orbits, some kind of story had to be concocted including, in the above order, a combination of masculinity and dapper suavity, an untamed creature inducing and abounding in excessive primitive passion, a dim-witted but competent piece of virility, and a chilly aristocrat who's a warm little girl after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

...continued the lining up of teams of famed names for the big game on Nov. 3. To offset the Republicans' Cornelia Otis Skinner, Geraldine Farrar and Ginger Rogers, Democrats had Helen Hayes, Lillian Gish, Grace Moore. Sally Rand. George Ade and Booth Tarkington were signed for Landon. George Jean Nathan and Theodore Dreiser for Roosevelt. Chester A. Arthur III. for Roosevelt, was ready to cancel out John Coolidge's vote for Landon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Teams | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Adventure in Manhattan (Columbia). Endowed with psychic intuition enabling him to predict crimes before they occur, an eccentric young reporter (Joel Mc-Crea) uses this gift to foil an international thief (Reginald Owen), shock his editor, captivate a young actress (Jean Arthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

Three students of French blood from small Canadian towns last week fired their fellows at Laval University to take up walking sticks against Vice in the big city of Quebec. Laval's Three Musketeers, Gilles Ayotte, Paul Emile Brazeau and Jean Paul Tremblay, did not act until they had on their side a recent angry declaration in the Quebec Court of Sessions by Judge Laetare Roy that the authorities were "flagrantly failing in their duty" to stamp out Vice. After reading this the French-Canadian students sallied forth one night last week, broke into eight houses of prostitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Virtue's Students | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...after the next lap, kept it to the end. After his 75th trip around the four-mile course - at 150 m.p.h. down the straightaway, less than 40 m.p.h. around the hairpin turns, for a 66 m.p.h. average - he waved to the judges and slowed down. While France's Jean Wimille in a Bugatti passed Count Brivio, whose motor had overheated on the last ten miles just enough to cost him second place, Nuvolari paused at the end of the track to get Cup, first prize, and an extra $3,000 in lap money. Then he jogged slowly back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Revival Race | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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