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Three years ago blonde Anita Page, who in spite of an unsympathetic part plays at least on even terms with the stage-experienced brunette, June Walker,* was the prettiest girl in Washington Irving High School. Her father had an electrical contracting business in Murray Hill, Flushing, L. I. Through her girlhood Anita Pomares took the bus to school and talked about being an actress. Her father had done some lighting work for a studio in Astoria and knew somebody who promised to do what he could for Anita. Her first screen name was Anita Rivers. After the company she signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

...fourteen, Yankee from fourteen up. Yet this scale is not completely accurate: Enterprise, with her heaviest mast stepped in, heeled over to an 18-mi. breeze and scooted past the old Resolute in an early test on Long Island Sound. Weetamoe has beaten Enterprise in light air. Whirlwind, prettiest looking of all, will be changed a lot before the final tests beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yachts | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...visitors rode in sleigh barges each pulled by four horses. The students gave a play, Fill the Bowl Up, on Occum Pond and a committee of solemn judges selected Jeannette Ross of Maplewood, N. J., and Miss Wheelock's School in Boston as Dartmouth Carnival Queen and the prettiest girl there?a title that was another feather in the cap of smart junior and Phi Gamma Pitkin, who had asked her up. There was some roughhousing on the ice called a moccasin dance, discreeter dances indoors; skating, tobogganing, skiing went on next morning, but the most interesting event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winter | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...eagle represents the U. S.; the lion, Great Britain; the cock, France; so the lamb is one of the animals symbolically peculiar to the Papal State. Last week, in one of the prettiest ceremonies of the Catholic Church, two very special lambs received the very special blessing of His Holiness Pope Pius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Agnus Pontificis | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...that the local fraternity has to do is to select the prettiest girl from a group of twenty-four whose pictures accompanied the request. The task was tackled with considerable complacency, but today a decision was apparently far from being reached and all hands admitted they were stumped. The judges, too, expressed keen disappointment over the fact that no names, addresses or telephone numbers accompanied the pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Passing the Does | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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