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To the castle on the wedding day of Head Butler Paul Lukas and the Baroness' personal maid Virginia Bruce, comes John Gilbert, highly recommended by the apprehensive countess whose chauffeur he has been. He watches the butler take his bride to his room. The upstairs buzzer sounds. Says the butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Lowell is perhaps the best known of the Houses. Its name, its bells, and its adverse criticism have combined to keep it continually before the public. As far as architecture is concerned, it is undoubtedly the most attractive. At the outset it had the advantage of a rectangular lot more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOUSES IN OPERATION: LOWELL HOUSE | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

Last week, on the eve of the debut of his Sunday Times, Publisher Thomason began to learn how the Tribune and "Herex" (both priced at 10?) propose to protect themselves against the 5? tabloid. Licensed newsstands in Chicago all are built with two display shelves. Copies of the Tribune are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Emory v. Bertie & Click | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

Focus of the Senators' interest was the Bull Market and the 1929 Crash, with particular reference to parts played therein by banks and the Reserve. Most of the Committee's findings were ancient history to the investor who had lost his shirt. But bankers throughout the land perused the report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lapses & Leniency | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

The big oval table in the Bank for International Settlements at Basle, Switzerland has been strewn every day for nearly three weeks with shiny leather portfolios, smudgy glass ashtrays, trim boxes of bank pins, glass wells full of purple and red ink, blotters with round bottoms like a child's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pollyanna Scrapped | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

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