Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this for the reason that over a year ago, probably longer, the front cover of one issue had a beautifully posed picture of Miss Jean Harlow [TIME, Aug. 19, 1935], and immediately afterwards appeared a number of letters to your magazine containing, to my mind, entirely unnecessary protests against your selection of this picture...
...foundation in fact has this remarkable statement. As anyone can tell you, Miss Cornell has appeared only recently in such plays as Candida, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Romeo and Juliet, St. Joan, & others-all of them, to say the least, of it, "good" plays, wherein she has come off by no means second best. Both artistically & monetarily, as witness her production of St. Joan, she can well afford the risk...
...TIME; a "good" drama rendering ineffectual an actress of Miss Cornell's calibre...
...this case Beverly Roberts departs from her customary Junior League Portrayals' and becomes the heroic young miss who runs a logging outfit somewhere up in "God's Country." George Brent, as the man in question, not only brings out the eternal feminine in her but frustrates her competitor when he tries to block up the river. The fact that the competitor is Mr. Brent's brother only makes his sacrifice for the woman he loves all the more noble...
...Kraska assures us in his advance circular that Fraulein Bergner has acted the part of Rosalind in the legitimate theatre a tremendous number of times. If this is true it is just unfortunate. There was nothing, well, almost nothing, that Miss Bergner could do to spoil one's enjoyment of "As You Like It" that she did not do. She spoke her lines with a heavy German accent, rendering at least half of them unintelligible. She simpered so with Celia (Sophie Stewart) (and Celia simpered back) that one squirmed in one's seat. She acted the part of Ganymede with...