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Search for Beauty (Paramount) is a benign sexual romp, publicized as an apostrophe to beauty, male as well as female ("Venus-like Girls! Tarzan-like Men!"). It presents: 30 handsome youngsters picked in promotional beauty contests throughout the U. S. and the British Empire; neat blonde Ida Lupino and muscular Larry ("Buster") Crabbe (Tarzan the Fearless). Lupino and Crabbe are Olympic swimmers. Hired by a pair of shifty rogues (James Gleason, Robert Armstrong) to run a physical culture magazine, they are soon shocked to discover what a crooked venture it really is. Crabbe is so vigorously honest that his employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1934 | 2/19/1934 | See Source »

...attended the Carnival this year if they enjoyed the company of the following young ladies whose names appeared on the list of registered guests: Billy Burke, Ellnor Bean, Betty Button, Alice Fair, Florence Fine, Grace Frank, Dorothy Golly, Cynthia Jump, Georgia Ann Inksetter, Charity Mason, Elizabeth Pettibone, Marion Romp, Minnie Phift, Betsy Ross, Mary Power, Sophie Tucker, Phoebe Weed, Jean Spooner, Letta Turtie, Ima Smack, Mae Weston, Margaret Will, Mary Wood, and Helen Wont. There are 856 girls registered as guests at the Carnival--now wouldn't the statisticians have a good time laying them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

Paderewski was no piano prodigy. His hands were small, his fingers stubby. When he started taking lessons he could hardly span an octave, preferred to romp with his sister Antonina who at 75 still keeps house for him in Switzerland. As a 12-year-old he went to the Conservatory in Warsaw and there a dozen moppets matched him in all save patience and determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Modern Immortal | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

Fervent converts to this "way of life" are Jim Goodman and Susie Wise. He has been a practicing nudist for four months, she for three. Nothing makes Jim, a California railway conductor, feel better than to go to a nudist colony for weekends, strip off his uniform and "romp around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Wedding | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...side of his nature should be played up as much as possible. The calming down, however, has not been carried too far; he is still bull-necked Jack, the terror among strong men. The plot, appropriately enough, deals with a steel mill, in which jack is at liberty to romp with the hunkies. It is probably the closest approach to the good old Horatio Alger song and dance that the Hollywood demons have given us, and contains most of the elements, in addition, which made Mrs. Radcliffe's novels so popular at one time. Jack rises from the labouring crew...

Author: By M. K. R., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1933 | See Source »

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