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...will refer to the Decameron of Boccaccio, Seventh Day, Fourth Story, you shall find this tale narrated exactly as above; the characters being Tofano and his wife Madam Ghita which makes me think that if this story, related to Mme Celarié is true, then this is a case where history repeated itself, almost verbatim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Morituri | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

First we'll have two girls, Later we'll get new girls. You'll be Adam, I'll be the madam In our cottage in Cicero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 15, 1931 | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...Chicago, "Old Doc" Robert Martin, itinerant Negro patent medicine seller, was urging his nostrum upon a Mrs. Eliza Murphy. Said he: "Madam, it is the greatest discovery since radium. ... It will make a new woman of you. ... I can recommend it because I take it myself. . . . Look at me: the picture of health!" He gasped, reeled, fell dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 16, 1931 | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Madam Satan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is the most interesting picture of the week because it revives a tradition that was once very important to the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

Anecdote: Shrugging her bent shoulders at one of these posters the old portress of an Italian palace said to a U. S. lady calling on her mistress: "Signora, noi siamo in brutte mani! (Madam, we are in ugly hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: God Sent This Man! | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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