Word: margarete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tiflis, where, as every Rus sian knows, the Dictator's mother lives in two rooms of the Palace of the former Tsarist Governor of Georgia, now a Soviet Republic (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Questing on to find Josef Stalin's birthplace in near by Gori, Camerawoman Margaret Bourke-White was shown a hole in the ground. In this hole, commodious enough once one walks in, still lives Stalin's great-aunt. After merrymaking over bread and wine, she raised her glass, gave this thoughtful toast: "To the honored guest! To the illustrious relative who has gone...
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN-Margaret Goldsmith-Doubleday, Derail ($2.50). When Greta Garbo's latest picture was released this week, cinemaddicts learned an historical fact: there was once a ruler of Sweden named Christina. But Authoress Goldsmith's biography gives a clearer picture of what manner of woman she was than Hollywood would ever dare. Not a first-rate book, Christina of Sweden at least gives U. S. readers a glimpse of one of the lesser-known figures of history. Only child of the great Gustavus Adolphus, Christina (1626-89) should have been a man, for she always acted like...
...Stevens George Brent Lon Winters Margaret Lindsay Anderzian Robert Barrat Sgt. Hoggs Engene Pallette...
George Brent, as Lieutenant Stevens, does a convincing job in his usual smooth manner. Margaret Lindsay, playing the part of the show girl, Lou Winters, supplies the love interest. The two have a strong affection for one another. When a Broadway playboy is discovered murdered the morning after a quarrel in his apartment, the police investigation reveals that she was the cause of the said quarrel. Suspicion falls on both her and her brother...
Impossible characters, an unbelievable plot, and complete disregard of the life-work of Margaret Sanger rob the picture of any value as sex-education propaganda. The association of passionate osculation with such things as positive Wasserman reactions and unsanitary abortions is not, however, without effect. The reviewer heard a damsel who had all the earmarks of an inmate of a local institution of higher learning for females remark after the show, "I don't see how a girl could ever want to kiss anyone again after seeing that...