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...being ar ranged. He likes baked potatoes, butter, spinach, zwieback, watches that have a loud tick. He distrusts W. C. Fields. His next picture will be Mrs. Fane's Baby Is Stolen, specially written for him by George Washington's debunker, Rupert Hughes. Bombshell (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lola Burns (Jean Harlow) has a mop of platinum blonde hair, a four-post bed in a lacquer white bedroom, a fat contract with Monarch Pictures. She has a thieving secretary, a vulgar, fatuous father, a brother so stupid that it is impossible to tell when he is drunk and three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 23, 1933 | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

Staged first before Tsar Alexander III in 1893, lolanthe had its U. S. premiere only last week. It was revived for the New York Musicians Emergency Fund in the outdoor theatre of Sleepy Hollow Country Club, at Scarborough. Soprano Lola Monti-Gorsey as lolanthe, Bass-Baritone Vasily Romakoff as the king, easily outdid a strident chorus of autumn katydids, sang their roles with grace and finesse. Guest of honor was sixtyish. grey-haired Margaret Eichenwald, who was coached for the role of lolanthe at its premiere by Tchaikovsky, now teaches voice at the Vocal Studio in Manhattan. The other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tchaikovsky Premiere | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

...week. It was suppressed, and The Night Club Lady, a murder mystery in which all the suspects have a motive for killing the victim, substituted. Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt (Adolphe Menjou) is a wrestling devotee who constantly demonstrates new holds to his drunken friend Tony (Skeets Gallagher). Learning that Lola Carewe (Mayo Methot), a blackmailing night club hostess, has had her life threatened, he takes Tony and six detectives to her apartment, mounts guard. Sitting in a circle of detectives Hostess Carewe awaits the zero hour, listens nervously to appropriate wisecracks from drink-befuddled Tony. Promptly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 12, 1932 | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Another nominating speech by another Scott?Charles F. of lola, Kan.?put the name of Charles Curtis before the convention in renomination for the Vice-Presidency. Vice President Curtis won, 634 ¼-to-401½. Only in 1912, when Theo dore Roosevelt split the Party and paved the way to a Democratic victory, had the G. O. P. renominated its previous ticket. It would not have occurred on the first ballot had not the Pennsylvania faction switched its 75 votes from General Ed ward Martin, State chairman, to Curtis at the last moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Dutch Take Holland | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...result of another change in the cast of the Dramatic Club's spring production, "Napoleon Intrudes", Charles Sedgwick '34 will play the part of Napoleon. The roles of Birgit and Lola have also been shifted, Barbara Magnus playing the former and Jean Goodale the latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEDGWICK TO PLAY LEADING ROLE IN DRAMATIC CLUB PLAY | 4/20/1932 | See Source »

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