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...earthy people. Last week, as lovely Lisl Goldarbeiter stepped off the Vienna Express at Bucharest, she was met by an ogglesome throng of youths whose reaction soon became riotously negative. "Give us someone our weight!" roared voices from the crowd. "A bent pin for the Austrian Jewess! Give us Magda Dimitrescu ?Magda is our weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Miss Universe Mobbed | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Magda Dimitrescu was also at the sta tion. She is not really a buxom girl, but beside ethereal "Miss Universe" her dimples looked their deepest, her curves and bulges fulsome. In the Galveston pulchri tude tourney as "Miss Rumania" she was not even runner up. Magda had come, hired by a Rumanian roulette syndicate, to welcome her successful rival and shepherd her to smart Sinaia Casino, where she was to be featured as "guest beauty" for a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Miss Universe Mobbed | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...well, all moss and weeds and dripping; a witch whose herbs were powerless against humans, and a mischievous faun whose first prank was to push down into a lake the bell which had just been cast by a certain villager named Heinrich. This Heinrich, like his wife Magda, the schoolmaster, the barber, and the pastor, was a simple peasant. All his life he had worked on the bell to hang in the church tower-so long, so hard that, when the bell crashed down the mountainside into the lake, his heart cracked too, would not mend until Rautendelein kissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sunken Bell | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

Died. Hermann Sudermann, 71, famed German dramatist & novelist, whose tragedy Heimat (Magda) was played by Modjeska, Duse, Mrs. Fiske; from apoplexy and pneumonia; in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 3, 1928 | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...abdicated, scapegrace, onetime Crown Prince Carol of Rumania, now residing with a Jewess, Magda Lupescu, in Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: I ... He ... My Child | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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