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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August, London surged and churned with conflicting streams of humanity: urbanites leaving for the country, vacationers coming back, foreigners seeking refuge or trying to leave for home (see p. 40). All Germans were ordered out by their Embassy. But life went on unchanged for lots of people. Dancer Tilly Losch proceeded with her design to marry young Lord Carnarvon. Promoters went ahead with a walkingstick show, were miffed when Prime Minister Chamberlain refused to let his umbrella be exhibited. But 19 walking sticks owned by Lady du Maurier were there, one containing a telescope, another a gold toothpick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: War Is Very Near | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Wang the farmer now becomes the patrician head of the House of Lung. He returns to the country. He buys the Great House. He cuts off his queue in the western fashion. He dons silk. He forgets the land in his passion for Lotus (Tilly Losch), a sing-song girl whom he makes his second wife. To her he gives 0-lan's two pearls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: The Good Earth | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...inferior as a fashion plate to Constance Bennett, and less potent at the box office than Shirley Temple. What they are not she is-the ultimate refinement of a rare and delicate artifact, the distilled essence of a Movie Actress. Extremely commonplace is the background of Mary Magdalene von Losch, born in Weimar, Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, Dec. 27, 1904. Her father, Edward von Losch, lieutenant in a regiment of Prussian Grenadiers, was stationed there. In 1915 von Losch was killed at Kovno on the Russian Front. After the War Marlene decided to try acting, changed her name to Dietrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Garden of Allah | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Divorced. Edward Francis Willis James, son of the late Mrs. William ("Willy") James, famed Edwardian hostess; from Ottilie E. ("Tilly") Losch James, Viennese dancer; in London. The divorce followed a sensational eight-day trial at the close of which Mrs. James and Prince Serge Obolensky, who was named corespondent, were ordered to pay costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 9, 1934 | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...recipients of the fellowships in the Society were Dr. H. I. Tsang, graduate student during 1930-1931; Dr. H. C. Trimble, assistant professor of Biological Chemistry; Dr. M. F. Yates, instructor in Operative Dentistry; Dr. P. K. Losch, Instructor in Operative Dentistry; and the following students: H. B. Seyfarth '32, of Boston, C. T. Nelson '32, of Providence, Rhode Island; and T. W. Atwood '32, of Durham, North Carolina. The Harriet Newell Lowell Medal for Distinctive Work in Research was awarded to Dr. David Weisberger '30, now engaged in research work at the Yale Medical School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DENTAL SOCIETY GIVES FELLOWSHIPS FOR 1932 | 5/19/1932 | See Source »

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