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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cradle of the Cheap GAL REPORTER-Joan Lowell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Joan Lowell, who signed her name to The Cradle of the Deep, one of the best-selling true-story hoaxes of recent years, has rested on her dubious laurels for four years. When her money dwindled, she had to hunt a job. She got one as reporter on a Boston tabloid, the Daily Record. Gal Reporter tells, in ochreous tabloid style, some of her assignments. For tabloid readers who think highly enough of their favorite reading matter to buy it in hook form, Gal Reporter should do nicely. More...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cradle of the Cheap | 7/24/1933 | See Source »

...Austin, Annah Blood, Beatrice Cohen, Hazel Crockett, Alice Dickson, Margaret Fish, Elizabeth Fisher, Louise Fielding, Sylvia Greenfield, Joan Henning, Betty Howe, Elizabeth Lincoln, Eisa Marlow, Polly Mittel, Eleanor Ovaus, Mignonne Politz, Ruth Rubinsky, Florence Usher, Helen Savage and Henrietta Young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RIVER ROWING ATTRACTS 20 WOMEN IN SUMMER SESSION | 7/11/1933 | See Source »

...beauteous Katharine Winterbotham Buchanan, 49, married an Indian Oxonian from Madras named Kumar Jehan Seesodia-Warliker last May, Chicago society, startled, warmly debated the race issue. But the union outraged the bride's divorced husband, Thompson Buchanan, who had himself meantime displayed an adventurous spirit by marrying Authoress Joan (Cradle of the Deep) Lowell. He marched into a Kentucky court, asked and got custody of his 9-year-old son and namesake on the ground that Seesodia-Warliker, no Caucasian, was unfit to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Custody | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...Franchot Tone went to Hill School and Cornell, where he got a Phi Beta Kappa key and ran the Dramatic Club. He played in stock for a year before Guthrie McClintic put him in the Age of Innocence, with Katharine Cornell. Last winter, Hollywood gossipmongers observed him escorting Joan Crawford, whom he will play opposite in his next picture, Dancing Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 10, 1933 | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...Pulciano prayed, roses and lilies fell from heaven, "because she never did it mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise yourself; and despise being despised." A post-mortem showed that his heart had grown so great that it had displaced one of his ribs. Of Joan of Arc, Hagiographer Wescott says: "If she was not a witch, the church is guilty of having destroyed its rarest heroine as a political expedient: if she was, it is guilty of having canonized her for more amiable reasons of the same general sort." Of The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saints | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

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