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...naive Pbns ways and docile disposition mislead some people. She is smart. She works hard on her music although her natural musical instinct is phenomenally sound. It did not take her long to learn that a prima donna who travels with pets gets photographed: she brought a baby jaguar back from her triumphal visit to Buenos Aires this summer. She also has learned that divorce rumors after sudden success are bad publicity. Separated from her husband, she says: "Divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco Memorial | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...pussycat words" in his acceptance speech and deliberately misrepresenting the Democratic position. "The difficulty under which the President labors [is] obvious," he declared, "and the reason for his use of meaningless words is clear. It is the difficulty that always attends sacrificing principles for votes. . . . His statement proceeds . . . to mislead the people. . . . The present leadership stands convicted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Forgotten Dollars | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...Matt are all in love with the same girl in a rural district "north of the Mason-Dixon Line." A happy blackamoor named David is found dancing and singing for the girl. He is warned to stay away from her. The geography of The Tree, however, must not mislead you. There is a lynching. Victim is the Negro after the girl is found raped and slain. At this point this earnest play turns allegorical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 25, 1932 | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...Listening? (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Although only the title of this picture is borrowed from Tony Wons's radio activities, Are You Listening? contains sufficient broadcasting hokum to mislead the uninitiated into believing that life in a studio is a combination of hangovers, sensational denouements and bleached blondes who arrive late for the dog biscuit hour. William Haines, a continuity writer of radio hogwash, has a private office, a secretary, an insufficient salary and a venomous wife who nags him whenever he comes home, which is seldom. For love he has turned to an artist in the studio (Madge Evans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...Hugh Gibson addressed the U. S. public by radio in reassuring terms. Next day a correspondent of great courage and some spleen, Frank H. Simonds of Manhattan's Evening Post, flatly accused not only Mr. Gibson but the chief delegates of other Great Powers of deliberately trying to mislead world public opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Business of Peace | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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