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...journey. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas brought old literary-artistic quarrels to a head. Miss Stein began reading the manuscript to Artist Pablo Picasso and his wife: "I was reading he was listening and his eyes were wide open and then suddenly his wife Olga Picasso got up and said she would not listen she would go away she said. What's the matter, we said, I do not know that woman she said and left. Pablo said go on reading. I said no you must go after your wife, he said oh I said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Success Story | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...itself, it leaves very little to be desired. Priestly Morrison is a perfect Grandpa Martin Vanderhof, his starting statements and dry wit made doubly effective by the subdued tone he uses. All the people are very real, albeit somewhat incredible, down to Ulla Kazanova as the Grand Duchess Olga, who comes one night from Childs Restaurant to cook the supper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/30/1937 | See Source »

...laughing at Shirley; Old Boots going to Khoda Khan. The Emperor's Candlesticks (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is as blythe a pre-War romance as the Baroness Orczy, from whose book it was adapted, could wish. Rival spies, the Polish Baron Stephan Wolensky (William Powell) and the Russian Countess Olga Mironova (Luise Rainer), are entrusted with a pair of Louis XV candlesticks to be lugged from Vienna to St. Petersburg. In the secret compartment of one candlestick the Baron hides a message to the Tsar; in the other candlestick the Countess hides the Baron's death warrant. The candlesticks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 19, 1937 | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

...Spain, might much more easily from these fields attack Germany. Despite such unmentionables as these at the White Castle in Belgrade last week, friendly gestures were for President Benes to decorate Dowager Queen Marie of Yugoslavia, her son King Peter, and Regent Prince Paul's wife Princess Olga, after which Mrs. Benes was decorated in return. Another day there was a palace banquet and before President Benes left for home the "Smartest Little Statesman" was so much on his toes as to flatter Boy King Peter with the gift of a gold-fitted dressing case featuring a razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Important Turning Point | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Stanislavsky's devoted company made it just as resounding a success, and from then on Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theatre marched in step. The company produced three more Chekhov plays (Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Garden}, produced also Actress Olga Knipper, whom Chekhov married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poet of the Little | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

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