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Stern, silent President Juan Antonio R??os of Chile has been faced since his election in February 1942 with a chronic political crisis. His problem: to appease refractory, quarreling politicians of nine parties who cannot agree among themselves on what they want. His solutions: recurrent Cabinet reshuffles. His results: none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: R?os Tries Again | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...dropped demagogic, anti-capitalist Count R??diger von der Goltz from the post of Commissar of Economy to which he was appointed last July with impossible hopes that Count R??diger would make the Fatherland self-sufficient, "a pure autarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Zags After Zigs? | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...r??le of Jeeter Lester, the ragged, flea-bitten patriarch of Tobacco Road, is beginning to take on some of the qualities of Hamlet. A great number of actors want to play it, and, by last week, three already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Third Jeeter | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...uproarious comedy of destruction. Henry Hull won critical salutes from all sides with his rickety impersonation of Jeeter. After he had played 30 weeks in the part, Universal snatched him off to Hollywood. Then James Barton, a song-&-dance man making his first legitimate appearance, took over the r??le (TIME, July 2). After 22 weeks, Hollywood bagged him too, with a contract from RKO. On the night of its 437th performance James Bell (The Last Mile) last week stepped into the lead of a play that. by now, has become a national institution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Third Jeeter | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

WifeofBenjamin-Z.-Fineberg-President- of-Superfine-Pictures-Incorporated is Actress Gladys George in her starring r??le as the blonde, seductive cinemactress of Personal Appearance (TIME. Oct. 29), current Manhattan stage hit. In private life Miss George has a husband named Edward Fowler, a Springfield. Mass, paper manufacturer. She also has a tortoise-shell Persian cat named Mungkee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cat & Callers | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

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