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...Being a Jewess, she is unable to secure a passport. Instead, she secures a prostitute's license. When she arrives at the jail where her father is confined, she finds him dead. She is then subjected to the insults of the secret police and the leering advances of a Baron Andrey (Lionel Barrymore). Further and even more desperate consequences of her junket are imminent until she makes good friends with a British journalist (Laurence Olivier) and, by virtue of what she can tell him about the technique of the secret police, becomes his secretary. When the journalist's revelations imperil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...tasted wormwood oftener than honey. Like many a fellow radical she was born a Russian Jewess, arrived in the U. S. a simple young immigrant. Her family settled in Rochester, N. Y. and Emma went to work like anybody else. The execution of the Chicago anarchists (1887) turned Emma Goldman's stomach, transformed her from a potential to an actual Red. Meantime she had married (at 18) one Jacob Kershner, whom she quickly discovered was impotent. Emma left him, her family and respectability, went to Manhattan to plunge into anarchism and free love. She made rapid headway in both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Red | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men's Life Catalog* | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Editor Walker assured the lady that he could not drive a car, had never owned one, never went above 59th Street. Following up the story, he asked her to come to his office. Soon she flounced in, a comely Jewess. Taking one look at ruffled, bird-like Editor Walker, she said: "You're right. He was much better looking than you are." Amused and annoyed, he set out to find his impersonator. The Herald Tribune did not print the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: City Editor | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...list of my books, do you leave out the most important ones? Glimpses of the Great, a record of my adventures as an interviewer, Spreading Germs of Hate, an impartial analysis of propaganda with a preface by Colonel House, and my chronicles of the Wandering Jew and the Wandering Jewess, written with Paul Eldridge. ... To list my books without including these is like printing a bibliography of Shakespeare without mentioning Hamlet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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