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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day the royal party journeyed by way of Geneva to Budapest amid whose Gypsy dance clubs Mrs. Simpson, in a dinner coat of spun glass, first became notable as his partner (TIME, March 11). Last week the Hungarian Secret Service recalled that during his visit last year only the most strenuous efforts kept out of newsorgans the fact that H. R. H. amused himself some evenings by standing in his bedroom in the Hotel Dunapalota and breaking the electric light bulbs in a room opposite with well-aimed shots from his pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Wishart & Wild Boars | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

Today he has his onetime partner at a disadvantage, for Davis Wilson is a hot campaigner. Husky, red-faced, hoarse-voiced, he flails with his arms, thinks nothing of making six speeches a day, once fainted from exhaustion during a radio address. He, too, campaigns for a 5¢ fare, throws in promises of cheaper gas and electricity for good measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Philadelphia Primary | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

After a short wait, a guard ushered the newsmen into the long, narrow partners' room with its line of flat-topped desks. The desks were deserted but at the far end beneath a looming portrait of John Pierpont Morgan Sr. stood the firm's traditional spokesman, Partner Thomas Lamont, flanked by Partners George Whitney and Harold Stanley. The newsmen crowded in about the fireplace while Mr. Lamont announced the resignation of three Morgan partners, two partners of Drexel & Co., the Philadelphia affiliate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: House Divided | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...last June, the remaining owner-producers (Mary Pickford, Samuel Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks) hastily set about compensating for their loss. First, David O. Gelznick decided to leave Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, form his own producing company to distribute pictures through United Artists. Then Mary Pickford took for a partner Jesse Lasky (who was last week vastly disgruntled by news that M-G-M had contrived to beat him in signing a contract with aging Ernestine Schumann-Heink, whom he had already announced as a star of forthcoming Pickford-Lasky productions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Korda Into United Artists | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

Last week, United Artists announced that the corporation had acquired a new partner. He was British Producer Alexander Korda (TIME, Sept. 9) whose pictures United Artists has been distributing in the U. S. for the past two years. First foreign partner in a U. S. film company, Mr. Korda planned to continue to produce abroad, said he would leave immediately and start Cyrano de Bergerac with Charles Laughton, Lawrence of Arabia with a brand new star named Walter Hudd, who was advertised as a discovery of George Bernard Shaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Korda Into United Artists | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

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