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...Francisco last fortnight Realtor Louis Lurie announced that he had organized a $5,000,000 company to produce pictures written and acted by Mae West. In Hollywood last week Mae West Empire Pictures Inc. was starting groundwork for its first production: Catherine the Great, written and acted by Cinemactress West, to be released early next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Items | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Kathleen Nagle $3,000 to Mrs. Lily Kenny $2,300 to Mrs. Alice Timleck $ 700 to Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Matriarchal Relief | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...pleasant realm of the wealthy, virile, tiger-hunting Sultan of Johore who, as an Oriental potentate, is entitled to have at least one attractive British woman staying at his palace on approval. His Highness, while making a round-the-world tour in 1934, was photographed in Hollywood with Mae West, and was the guest in Washington of Mr. & Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week, the Sultan again was news because, when he recently returned to Johore from a holiday in Sumatra, he had with him and seemed intent on marrying a pert number, Lydia Cecily Hill, an ex-cabaret performer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JOHORE: Mothers & Daughters | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...later Midget Joe Scott, 22, 3 ft. 4 in., 40 lb., applied for a license to wed Torch-Singer Mae Britt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...story opens with the murder of his first victim, a seedy reporter, who is mixed up with a rival gang. A neat strangulation, this murder goes on the police records as heart failure. But two flaws turn up. One is a buxom, sentimental blonde, a sort of Mae West figure of Justice, who suspects that her friend the reporter has met foul play, gradually uncovers the evidence herself. The other is a mousy, 17-year-old waitress who knows the weak point in Pinkie's alibi. To shut the waitress' mouth, Pinkie cold-bloodedly makes love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ascetic Killer | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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