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Shelley seems closer to Brooklyn than the South Seas, and the serious lines she gets to speak sound like a bad burlesque of Mae West. But she puts over her songs, mostly such oldtimers as It Had to Be You, with vigorous good humor. Macdonald Carey appears to be wisely conserving his energies for more important assignments. If expert villain Luther Adler had had more to do, he might have stolen the whole show before Shelley had a chance to sing her numbers and get kicked off the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 6, 1950 | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...immortalized in hoisting devices, French Physician Joseph Guillotin in a machine which struck him as more humane than the ax, and be-trousered Suffragette Amelia Bloomer in billowing pantalets. It is a process that has never stopped, concludes Partridge happily-from Solon, who became a synonym for lawyer, to Mae West, who became a life jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report from the Jungle | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...typical woman, "a creature of emotion," found that the movies gave her emotions an enjoyable vicarious workout. Banks did not try to pin down the turning point, but many a student of the cinema thinks it was that shattering 1931 scene in which James Cagney pushed a grapefruit into Mae Clarke's face. From that day on, the oldtime sleek romantic screen lover began going into eclipse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Power of a Woman | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...LENNA MAE GARA Bluffton, Ohio

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...comic strip, typifies the casting problems faced by TV directors who, in this case, must search for reasonably accurate facsimiles of Dogpatch denizens. The show would be easy to cast for radio. For television, more than 4,544 actors have been interviewed for the title role and for Daisy Mae, but no one has been definitely decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: There'll Be Some Changes | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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