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...best foot forward with the other guests, perhaps even to find a wife or husband, for Proprietor Abe Tobias offers a free honey moon the following year to any couple whose troth is plighted at Kare-Free. There is Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears solid silk pajamas and has a way with the "pigeons" (girls). There is good-hearted Fay Fromkin, whose girl friend, a late comer, is Teddy Stern (Katherine Locke). Teddy, an unsure, shy little typist with a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Gods (London Film) is based on the triangle of a matinee idol (Sebastian Shaw), his actress wife (Gertrude Lawrence) and a spinster secretary (Miriam Hopkins). When the secretary breaks off her affair with him because his wife is about to have a child, he resolves on that stage-worn device-actually killing his wife when as Othello he is smother ing her as Desdemona. This time, how ever, Desdemona lives to reconquer her Othello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 25, 1937 | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Miscast as a morbidly jealous wife, Gertrude Lawrence manages to give her role a lynx-eyed dignity which is an excellent foil for the brittle vibrance of Miriam Hop kins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 25, 1937 | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Pulling out of her driveway in Beverly Hills, Calif., Cinemactress Miriam Hopkins collided with an automobile driven by Mrs. Fred Astaire, suffered a dislocated shoulder, a bruised nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1936 | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...Lohengrin, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre behind him, Wagner has finished the libretto of Tristan und Isolde, is working on the music, under the inspiration of Mathilda Wesendonck (Eva Le Gallienne), with the Schnorrs (Arthur Gerry and Beal Hober) singing his scores and Cosima Liszt von Bulow (Miriam Battista) fluttering about in round-eyed adulation. Minna - jealous, nagging, nerve-fraying epitome of an artist's devoted wife - translates her dislike of the Wesendonck affair into criticism of Tristan: "Nothing happens in it from beginning to end, just two people bleating and bleating about how much they love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 14, 1936 | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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