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...roared the lawyer, and Director Mirande was promptly sued by Denis pére et fils. "My film is a pure fantasy, based on the incident at Mâcon, but in nowise aimed at les Docteurs Denis," cried Defendant Mirande. The entire Macon Tribunal traveled 45 miles to Lyon, viewed Une Petite Fortune, and last week acquitted Yves Mirande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pefite Fortune | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...American Actor Ben Lyon taught voluptuous, blonde Edna Powell the orthodox Minsky technique for her tease in Haw Haw, playing at the Holborn Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strip Strip Hooray | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Earl of Athlone, her youngest brother. He is so keen a soldier that he not only won the D. S. O. in Africa in 1901 but begged off from becoming Governor General of Canada in 1914 to join the British Army in France. Last week Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King revealed that when George VI toured the Dominion last year, King & King talked over who would make a suitable successor for Canada's then Governor General, Baron Tweedsmuir, and agreed on "Algie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Hate-Free, Fear-Free | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...Wilfred Laurier began to watch William Lyon Mackenzie King as early as 1900, when he learned that the young man had entered the civil service (as Deputy Minister of Labor) in preparation for a public career. Up to that time Mackenzie King had been headed for social service. After graduating from the University of Toronto and Harvard he had studied social conditions in Europe, done social work under Jane Addams at Chicago's Hull House. But his grandfather had led an abortive rebellion against the British in upper Canada, and Sir Wilfred thought the grandson had the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Mackenzie King Wins | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...across the frontier with two submachine guns and one machine gun. Next day the entire Spanish battalion was in a ferment and the volunteers sat out on the beach singing civil-war songs and talking of mass desertion. The French prudently transferred the entire camp to Valbonne, north of Lyon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Year of Peace | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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