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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There could not have been in the House of Commons a single member who did not know that this opening was a bland reversal of the facts-yet so bold and sweeping that it rose not to the crescendo of a lie but to that of the most convincing and comfortable assurance which a Prime Minister could feel it his awful duty to make. Mr. Baldwin went on to tell how these two perfect friends had confided to each other that the one wanted to marry Mrs. Simpson and the other, while not venturing to advise, still less to blame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin the Magnificent | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...home" in its history. Edward Johnson, the "Met's" affable general manager, welcomed them, introduced the company's new artists. Mrs. August Belmont, chairman of the Guild, disclosed that it had gained 500 new members since this time last year, pledged the Opera 25% more support. Rose Bampton sang two Strauss lieder. Radio Announcer Graham McNamee made arch announcements for a burlesque of opera in 2000 A. D. wherein Dancer Paul Draper, as "Gohengrin, the Flying Dutch-man," arrived in an airplane instead of a swan-boat, twinkle-toed around his bride while the Orchestra played Wagner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met's Metamorphosis | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Plenty of pretty girls in the fewest possible clothes was the formula which made Fort Worth, Tex.'s Frontier Centennial Exposition a bang-up success last summer. As a final fillip, Producer-Manager Billy Rose, the Broadway Barnum, worked up an act called "Beauty & the Beast." In this, shapely Lawrene Nevell, clad in breechcloth, brassiere and flowing cape,' did a dance in a lions' cage, flapping her cape in the faces of five large lions owned by a Dallas veterinarian named Nobel Hamiter (see cut). The lethargy of its bestial stooges made "Beauty & the Beast" less titillating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Bride of the Lion | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Fannie Rosenberg, 62, mother of Showman Billy Rose (Jumbo, Fort Worth Centennial); of bronchopneumonia; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...feature, "Rose Bowl," is what the title suggests and not much more. Since Hollywood released their first football picture some years ago, they have changed little. There still romps the sleek, cocky star fullback, who breaks the small-town girl's heart, and the second-team "regular fellow," who runs wild in the final game to carry off both the victory and the same home town girl. In the middle of this very long film the producers showed a shallow streak of guilty conscience in the person of a meek professor, who objects to his small college vying...

Author: By E. G., | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

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