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...long been recognized as one of the most prominent actors in France, and has appeared recently in many stage successes. The production, which has had a long stage run in France, contains a typically French theme, and deals with the romantic escapades of a country youth who ascends the ladder of fame as a fashionable hairdresser. Prior to the main picture, a short curtain raiser will be presented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Coiffeur Pour Dames" Will Be Presented This Afternoon | 3/15/1933 | See Source »

...theatre with gyves which you rightly suspect will not be strong enough. Kong breaks them in full view of a first night audience, pushes down the side of the theatre, wrecks an elevated train, climbs up the side of a hotel as though it were a ladder. When he finds Miss Wray he climbs, with her in his fist, up the outside of the Empire State Building. He sits down on the mooring mast, disgusted by his surroundings. A squad of airplanes finally shoot him down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 13, 1933 | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...life. "If there is anything more glamorous than a Florida river I have yet to find it." Now (34), she has tried to be a writer for 24 years. Her first real encouragement came two years ago, when Scribner's printed her long short story "Jacob's Ladder." South Moon Under, with George Bernard Shaw's The Adventures of the Black Girl in Search of God (TIME, Feb. 27), is the March choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Florida Scrub | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

...Chicago, having walked under a ladder and presided at a 13-course luncheon of the 13-membered Anti-Superstition Club on Friday, Jan. 13, to defy Bad Luck, skeptical Sidney Nicholas Strotz, president of Chicago's $7,000,000 Stadium, had to announce that his Stadium had gone into receivership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 6, 1933 | 2/6/1933 | See Source »

...middle-aged couple, straining up the social ladder, get their fingernails on the top rung-then slip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: German Falstaff | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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