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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...employers. He had to return to Hollywood to recruit a crew of fake lumberjacks with enough courage to do what real lumberjacks are supposed to do. Included in the uproar concerning production of Come and Get It was the story which billed Actress Andrea Leeds as Hollywood's "kiss champion'' after she had spent more than nine hours kissing three young actors to test their ability to play the role of her fiancé in the film. Winner was tall, tennis-playing Francis Xavier Shields. In the course of the picture, he and Actress Leeds (Barney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Curtis-Bennett, 57, famed British criminal lawyer, three weeks ago named chairman of the London Court of Sessions; after collapsing at a Greyhound Racing Association dinner at the moment he was joking about his weight (252 lb.); in London. In his only (1924) campaign for Parliament, he promised to kiss each of the 16,269 women constituents of Chelmsford, was elected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Pledge In Litchfield, III., Pastor L. A. Crown preached on "Litchfield's Worst Sin-Ingratitude," pledged husbands of the Union Avenue Christian Church to kiss their wives twice daily for six weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Clerk | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...superficial consideration of the plot gives an appearance of setting out in all directions at once with only a few of the vectors ever returning together again. Philip Merivale and Gladys Cooper who play Mr. and Mrs. Hilton start the morning with a kiss. During the day each has his brief lapee of fidelity, though never of real love. But at the end of the day they confess all to each other, and the final curtain drops as they are affectionately holding hands between their twin beds. This section of the plot is the only complete cycle in the play...

Author: By P. M. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 10/22/1936 | See Source »

...wish I had someone to love me, Someone to call me her own; Someone to kiss and caress me: I'm tired of living alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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