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JIMMIE MACDONALD Princess Louisa Inlet, B.C. Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 14, 1941 | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

Little Men (R. K. O. Radio, is the third cinema which harum-scarum Scenarists Gene Towne and Graham Baker have put out on their own. A "streamlined film version" of Louisa May Alcott's novel about life at the Plumfield Farm Boarding School in the late 19th Century, the Polly -androus story would hardly be recognized by Louisa May. Most intrusive revision: the addition of a pair of slick sharpers called Major Burdle (George Bancroft) and Willie the Fox (Jack Oakie). A period piece as heavy as a Victorian sideboard, the picture is lit up, as by an occasional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Jack Oakie and Borden Dairy's glamour cow, Elsie, were grafted onto Louisa May Alcott's actionless story about a country school. The result is a slow-moving film chiefly notable for a few scenes of clever Oakie slapstick and a bovine romance, between Elsic and the bellowing bull down the road. Hopelessly bogged down by poor script and a bustle, Kay Francis gives a mediocre performance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...Married. Louisa Ayres Robert, 24, comely swimming star, daughter of National Democratic Committee Secretary Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr. by his first wife, Louise Ayres; and Grant Meade Le Roux: in Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 24, 1940 | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

Unitarians could point to a long tradition of outstanding women-such suffragettes and reformers as Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, Dorothea Dix, Louisa May Alcott. That Dr. Reinhardt capably upheld that tradition, few Unitarians doubted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Woman Moderator | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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