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Polish newsorgans last week were full of Pola Negri, supposed by many to be a Polish Jewess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Nazi's Negri | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...bubbled with good humor last week. He decreed that Stresemannstrasse, named after Germany's late, great Nobel Peace Prize winning Foreign Minister (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926), should be renamed Saarlandestrasse. Since beauteous Widow Stresemann, once the "Queen Kathe" of swank Berlin night clubs, happens to be a Jewess, Admiral von Levetzow was congratulated last week on having winged two birds with one pellet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: On to Rearmament | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...this point a sleepy little Jewess of 34 sidled into the room, threw back her leopard-skin coat, pulled a crumpled hat off her short, mousy hair, yawned, sat down. Viennese Actress Elizabeth Bergner, just off the Olympic, was about to give her first U. S. interview...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Bergner Arrives | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...Gold Eagle Guy" Button, a potbellied, acquisitive little seaman, is first discovered in a low bar. In & out drift some of the extraordinary figures of old San Francisco, including zany Emperor Norton I. Also present is famed oldtime Actress Adah Isaacs Menken, the "Divine Jewess" of Mazeppa. Guy Button insults her, gets a slap in the face. In return, he swears that she will change her mind about him. It turns out that he is right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Also from London came the voice of Frau Mathilde Wurm, 13 years a Socialist member of the Reichstag, a Jewess, now living in Great Britain in virtual exile. Speaking in English, she told the Conference that Hitlerism, having wooed the support of German women with promises of liberation from underpaid drudgery, betrayed them by expelling women from civil and professional life, and by handing them over to farm and household labor without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Herald Tribune's Lady | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

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