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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus far the. tournament's heroine, Charlotte Glutting soon saw her fun ended. Smiling, pert-nosed Virginia ("Gino") Van Wie (to rhyme with "tee") was too much for her (4 & 3) and the final gallery gathered around to watch a match often played before. Miss Van Wie v. cool, collected Glenna Collett Vare. five times the champion, twice Miss Van Wie's mistress in national finals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Peabody | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...voiced Helen Broderick. who variously impersonates a streetwalker, an inmate of a maternity ward, a deceiving wife. Harriet Hoctor. wanly unreal as a porcelain figure, does her old raven dance and a couple of others. Offsetting this wholesome influence is an abandoned fellow named Milton Berle (to rhyme with "peril") whom Producer Carroll has chosen for his chief male funster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...money was not returned. When he got it back, he paid his crew and blew out his brains, but Monte Carlo Madness is a less sordid variation of the incident. The Captain (Hans Albers) is in charge of the one-boat Navy of a place called Pontenero (to rhyme with "zero" and "hero"). When he meets the Queen of Pontenero (Sari Maritza) he mistakes her for a demimondaine and they enjoy a romance. When it becomes known that the Captain has gambled away the ship's payroll, he makes a neat dive over the side and gaily dog-paddles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 13, 1932 | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

...their boots. To prove it, he wrote his True History of the Conquest of New Spain, which remains the best first-hand story of the great conquistadors. From this first-hand material Poet MacLeish has developed an exciting, 2,000-line narrative poem. His terza rima stanzas have no rhyme, but instead a subtle assonance. The story opens with Cortes' embarkation at Santiago de Cuba for the west, against the command of Velasquez, the Spanish Governor. Across the Gulf, in the teeth of Velasquez' organized opposition, they work their way to Cempoala on the Mexican coast. Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cortes & Co. | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

...career in Europe had the same twists- she danced in the Diaghilev ballet, was later featured in two UFA cinemas. Before that, she had grown up in Russia, won a dancing contest in Petrograd at 17. She is now 23, pronounces her name with a soft G, to rhyme with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 13, 1931 | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

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