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...Charles T. Fisher's two-year-old filly Far Star: the $47,000 Arlington Park Futurity, with the favorite, Mata Hari, fourth; at Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 7, 1933 | 8/7/1933 | See Source »

...Vagabond rose, prophecy welling within him. "Gentlemen. Our Alma Mata doesn't care." He spoke with solemn dignity, stressing every word. No head stirred under its halo of smoke. No dull eye answered to his rhetoric...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 6/9/1933 | See Source »

Died. Commandant Georges Ledoux, 58, Wartime head of France's Counter-Espionage Service, captor of famed Spy Margaret Zelle MacLeod (Mata Hari) ; in Cannes, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...site of the still more ancient leprosery of St. Lazare, has held France's women prisoners, specially harlots. One of St. Lazare's first notable prisoners was Charlotte Corday, bath-stabber of Terrorist Marat. One of its more recent inmates was the equally publicized Spy Mata Hari. U. S. inmates have included the Comtesse de Janze, the former Alice Silverthorne of Chicago, for shooting her lover (whom she later married) and Mrs. Ruth Putnam Mason, author and actress, for passing worthless checks. On the site will be built a new clubhouse for the Societe des Auvergnats, whose members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Lazare Day | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...treasury of Klopstokia, Migg Tweeny, visiting the country in the capacity of brush salesman, decides to take its amazingly able-bodied citizenry to Los Angeles. His plans to win all the events in the Olympics are impeded somewhat by a spy, in league with the cabinet members. She, Mata Machree (Lyda Roberti), makes friends with all the members of the team and causes them to squabble with each other. It looks as if Klopstokia may lose after all until W. C. Fields begins lifting weights. He loses his temper while doing so. This causes him to raise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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