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Revived, Captain Onslow (Warner Baxter) is in a peculiar position. He is affianced to a blonde Baroness Von Sturm (Miriam Jordan) but he decides that it would be more generous to break the engagement so that she will fall in love with his rival (John Boles). Highly satisfied with his experience of death, he is able to reassure an old lady that her departed son is well and happy, a small girl that her little brother has elephants to play with. He attends an important conference in time to cast the vote that defeats a treaty which would have injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...their run-off primary for Governor last week, a million Texas Democrats divided almost evenly between rich, rotund Ross Shaw Sterling, incumbent, and lean, homely Miriam Amanda (''Ma'') Ferguson, onetime Governor. As the ballot count slowly progressed Governor Sterling and Mrs. Ferguson seesawed back & forth with sometimes only a few hundred votes separating them. When Governor Sterling's lead moved above 3,000. Jim Ferguson, whose impeachment and removal as Governor put his wife into politics and office, began to demand a recount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Job No. 2 | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...decided to use the program as a sustaining feature speaks for itself. The stations must have listen ers - this is their stock in trade - and to have listeners they must give worthwhile sustaining programs. We eagerly wait for Friday night, Sept. 9, at 8:30 o'clock. MIRIAM DARB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

Adopted. By Actress Miriam Hopkins, lately divorced from Playwright Austin Parker; a child, "Boy Wilson"; from an Evanston, Ill. orphanage. Said she: "I don't have to give any reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 16, 1932 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

...cigaret puffings by Alan Mowbray. Bancroft is a Bolshevik sea-captain named Kylenko. Mowbray is a calm patrician. His name is Dmitri and he uses his monocle in such debonair fashion that you are sure he will be executed before the picture ends. There is also a dancing girl (Miriam Hopkins) who is Dmitri's mistress. With her he runs away from the Bolsheviks. When they | reach the seaport of Theodosia, Dmitri thinks that he is safe. He and some of his aristocratic companions are giving a soiree when the town is captured by Kylenko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1932 | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

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