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Other Washington women fancied themselves in the following r??les: Mrs. Cordell Hull, a gypsy; Mrs. Homer Cummings, a Spanish matron; Mrs. Claude Swanson, a Dutch girl; Madam Secretary Perkins, a braintruster (cap & gown); Mrs. Donald Richberg, "The Mystery of the New Deal'' (an alphabet-spangled dress); Mrs. Henry Wallace, a Yugoslav peasant; Mrs. Daniel Roper, a court lady of the Second Empire; Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr., a court lady of the 18th Century; Mrs. George Dern, one of the wives of Brigham Young; Anna Roosevelt Dall, The Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Masquerade | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

Again, Woodrow Wilson. Meanwhile the disarmament game of Words, Words, Words began again at Geneva, though one of the players (Germany) sulked and refused to sit in at La Conference pour la Limitation et pour la R??duction des Armaments (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Again Wars? | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...Unterberger of Koenigsberg sent word that if women drink great quantities of bicarbonate of soda, they will bear only sons. A lactic acid diet produces only girls. Dr. Unterberger verified his theory with 78 daughter-surfeited German women. All but one bore sons. The exception had broken her alkaline r??gime. Six cows fed lactic acid each produced a female calf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Better Peas, Pigs, People | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

...work in so many cinemas she seldom learns their plots, cannot remember their titles; James Gleason, who in this one supplies the pathos, dies; Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante, who appears in one scene for five minutes; Billie Dove, whose once shapely figure has assumed dimensions hardly commensurate with her r??le?that of Miss Davies' friend in the Follies. The story concerns the quick jump of the two young ladies from an East Side tenement to swank apartments on Park Avenue. First Miss Dove gets into the chorus, permits herself to be kept. Miss Davies follows in short order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 5, 1932 | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

Loretta Young and Eric Linden, well suited to their r??les, are two of the youngest featured players in Hollywood. Linden, 22, made his cinema debut as an usher in Roxy's Theatre, Manhattan. A professor who had taught him English at Columbia saw him there, secured him a job with the Theatre Guild. He acted in Manhattan for one year, went abroad with a U. S. company, toured France on a bicycle, returned on a cattle boat, performed in television. RKO's Are These Our Children? was his first picture. To emphasize his youthful appearance, he seldom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 5, 1932 | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

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