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Miss Physical Culture, Regina Mona, in the train of no less person than Miss Irene. Ahlberg, Miss America to be specific, arrived on the scene at this moment, all exuberance and powder. And these two were followed by such a galaxy of Bodies Beautiful that any further coherent conversation was impossible. A ripple of voices, a few whisps of silk, a hasty retreat and the fifty six candle power light of beauty had vanished behind a very final looking stage door

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/18/1930 | See Source »

Barnsdall Corp. last week purchased controlling interest in Mona Motor Oil Co., independent oil and gasoline distributor in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. The acquisition links Barnsdall's South Dakota and Northwestern marketing systems with its Oklahoma and Kansas chains of bulk and retail stations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Oil Week | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...English used by the characters, Romance of the Rio Grande is a highly atmospheric account of the routines of a big Mexican rancho, its noises, difficulties, fiestas. Baxter and Moreno, respectively grandson and nephew of the ranch owner quarrel to see who inherits the layout. A new girl named Mona Maris has a shrill voice and wiry body that suit her role as an orphan-pensioner living on the rancho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 25, 1929 | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...William Beebe's expedition to the Galapagos Islands. On Galapagos there is a volcano now named Harrison Williams. In 1920 he bought the Krupp-built yacht Vanados, then Largest Yacht, rechristened it Warrior, equipped it with apparatus for testing ocean currents and temperatures. In 1926 he married Mrs. Mona Travis Strader Bush, onetime wife of James I. Bush, vice president of Equitable Trust Co. and took the Warrior on a round-the-world honeymoon. When the Prince of Wales visited the U. S. in 1919, he was Mr. Williams' guest at Glen Cove, L. I. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Million-Dollar Names | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...irresistible is the Mona Lisa, it happened again last week, when an unframed Mona Lisa by Mrs. Elizabeth Tinker Elmore, New York copyist, was stolen from the fourth floor parlors of the public library in Birmingham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Again, Mona | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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