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...robust to be dissipated in the adolescent dreaming which initiated it. Skillful craftsmanship by all concerned eliminates the pitfall lurking in most stories of young girls in love with older men, i. e., that the hero will appear a prude if he rejects the heroine's advances, a lecher if he welcomes them. Helped by U. S. lighting and No. 28 makeup, Simone Simon is more embraceable than in her last French picture to reach the U. S. (Lac aux Dames), but Girls' Dormitory, as first made, ended without her being in the arms of Marshall. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...Thackeray-"with his warped, middle-class outlook, poor, frightened little mid-nineteenth-century Thackeray"-who gave George IV and his Brighton days their bad reputation in Victorian England. To that novelist George was everything that an English monarch should not be: a bigamist, a liar and a lecher who played practical jokes, gambled, drank heavily, and, as Prince of Wales, with an income of ?70,000, managed to accumulate ?250,000 of debts in three years. Brighton, despite its quaint, un-English charm, its surface respectability, had been the scene of his historic revels, remained so charged with memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Playful Prince | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

Rembrandt Harmens van Rijn was no eccentric, no drunkard, no lecher, no misanthrope, no hermit, no seeker after scientific truth. He simply loved to paint. He also loved mankind and knew it as few painters have ever known it. He liked money and what money bought; he knew everybody in Amsterdam from the famed Burgomaster Jan Six to his Amsterdam Ghetto neighbors, the Portuguese Jews, and the tramps and prostitutes along the spotless city's spotty waterfront. He spent most of his life turning out an amazing total of paintings, etchings and drawings, most of them first rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Amsterdam's Rembrandt | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...children-and making a home has nothing, or very little, to do with sexual love." To most normal Anglo-Saxons such talk was the rankest social heresy and to most U. S. homes Earl Russell, for all his gift of persuasive language, was nothing but a reprehensible old lecher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rose v. a Rose | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...suspicion of having murdered him, the account of her trial would certainly be front-paged. It would give the Press hysterics if: 1) her defense counsel, the greatest criminal lawyer of his day, were to become desperately enamoured of her; 2) the presiding judge were a sadist and notorious lecher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cause Célèbre | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

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