Word: legend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the U. S. but want more pay-Babs with our money runs away. Such was the legend striking employes of three F. W. Woolworth stores in New York carried on picket placards day after 25-year-old Countess Haugwitz-Revent-low (Barbara Hutton) spent five minutes in a courtroom on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Federal Courthouse, signed away her U. S. citizenship, became solely a Danish subject like her husband, sailed back to England on the Europa after 36 hours in the U. S. Through her attorneys the granddaughter of the 5?-&-10? chain...
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (by Dorothy Day Wendell; produced by George Busbar and John Tuerk). Broadway still half believes that there's a broken heart for every light on it, still cultivates the legend of the gallant trouper who smiles through tears. In Tell Me, Pretty Maiden, Doris Nolan, home from such Hollywood productions as The Man I Many and As Good As Married, squanders her talents on the part of a gallant actress, Margo Dare. The persons who get told are a bevy of reporters who interview the lustrous Margo at a cocktail party arranged by her pressagent...
...neatest jobs of play construction. In The Infernal Machine Playwright Cocteau has kept Sophocles' characters in their ancient setting but has stressed the psychoanalytic implications of the story and told it in modern language. To The Play Room audience Cocteau's attempt to make the legend significant in modern terms seemed so sincere that his anachronisms, his references to Theban nightclubs, and the sprinkling of slang did not sound forced. Jean Cocteau, once called "the most charming young man in Paris," has always been a good showman. He has frequently set Paris on her ear with his expressionistic...
...managing (not owning) eight hotels in seven cities* with a success that has made Ralph Hitz perhaps the most famed U. S. boniface. Last week, in connection with N. H. M.'s ninth hotel, Manhattan's Belmont Plaza, Ralph Hitz added to the Hitz legend...
According to popular legend, Cleopatra nearly vamped the Roman Empire to death. But if Cleopatra had been half as lucky in historians as she was in love, her reputation would now be very different. Such, at least, is the thesis of Biographer Ludwig's Cleopatra. A by-product of Ludwig's The Nile (TIME, Feb. 22), Cleopatra adds no new data to the little there is to go on: three lines from a letter of Antony's, one authentic bust. But Author Ludwig reopens the 2,000-year-old Cleopatra Case on the grounds that all contemporary...