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Word: myrna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...westerns have had, it has the proper ingredients-the chase on horseback, pearl-handled revolvers, the kidnaped girl, the cattle-stealer. It lacks continuity but is worth the while of anyone who regrets that picture companies have turned from the original sources of their inspiration. Best part: Myrna Loy as the jealous wife of an amorous cowman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 29, 1930 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Eight new singers have been engaged: Soprano Beatrice Belkin of Lawrence, Kan., member of "Roxy's Gang" (Manhattan cinema troupe), the St. Louis Municipal and the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Grand Opera Companies; Soprano Myrna Sharlow of Jamestown, N. Dak. and St. Louis, onetime member of the Chicago Opera Company; Polish Soprano Olga Didur, daughter of Basso Adamo Didur, also a Metropolitan singer; French Coloratura Lily Pons; French Tenor Georges Thill to replace Tenor Antonin Trantoul whose début last winter was undistinguished; Contralto Faina Petrova of the Moscow Grand Opera; Baritone Claudio Frigerio of Paterson, N. J., who has sung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gatti's Plans | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...appearing on the Palace circuit. A sheep in wolf's clothing, he sometimes retaliates for his discomfort by glossing his role with furtive mockery, quickly suppressed. Some of the photography is pretty and the theme song, "Under a Texas Moon," better than the average. Silliest shot: Fay eloping with Myrna Loy, when he might have had Armida or Raquel Torres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Apr. 14, 1930 | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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