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...staff, impersonated by some of Hollywood's foremost impersonators. From left to right they are: Director Erich von Stroheim, with his shako cocked over his nose; Producer Joe Schenck as a colonel of the cuirassiers; Douglas Fairbanks of the Hussards de la Garde; Grenadier Clive Brook; le Maréchal Sid Grauman; Adolphe Menjou as Marshal Ney; William Powell as an aide de camp. To the left lies Groucho Marx as a dead trumpeter. In the lower right-hand corner Charlie Chaplin, as a drunken priest, is clutching a bottle of champagne and refusing a drink of brandy from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hollywood to the Rescue | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

Rubens soon proved his usefulness to the Cuban exiles as a lawyer and was made General Counsel and utility man to the "Cuban Junta." In 1895 Gómez and Marí'i landed in Cuba for the final struggle. Martí was soon killed in a skirmish, but Gómez joined forces with Macéo and spread revolt over the whole island. Meantime the Junta in the U. S. had the job of keeping the Cuban "army" supplied with guns and ammunition. Rubens became an expert organizer of filibustering expedi tions, an equally expert defense lawyer for arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Today's Tyrant | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...only leader of modern China who has inherited his authority is the well-meaning, hollow-eyed young man known throughout China as "The Young Mar-shal," Chang Hsueh-liang. He is the deposed warlord of Manchuria and, until last week, ruler of Peiping and the surrounding province. Last week destiny caught up with him and with the rest of China. Chang Hsueh-liang is the son of Chang Tso-lin, one of the most picturesque Chinese characters to emerge since the death of that grand old lady, the Empress Dowager Tzu-hsi. Chang Tso-lin was a bandit who made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Almond-Eyed Fascismo? | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...aboard the Myth II, Nominee Roosevelt took three of his four toothy sons, James. Franklin Jr. and John; Robert Delano, a nephew; and George Briggs, Boston friend. Trailing the Myth II around Cape Cod went the Ambassadress, a yacht full of political friends. Close behind the Ambassadress came the Mar con, a cabin cruiser used in the Lindbergh baby search, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks and cameramen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Cruise of the Myth | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...exhibition at snappy Casa del Mar Club at Atlantic Beach, N. Y. where members surprisingly objected to Ganso's oil, Two Nudes Reclining, on the grounds that it was demoralizing to both children and adults. After art experts had lectured the club management on Ganso's technique, the picture was allowed to remain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beauty & the Baker | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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