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Most authentic shot: Ted Hackett III wearing the white towel-scarf which Hollywood juveniles use off-stage as though it were a uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 11, 1933 | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...know that a stall, a spin, probably a crash were imminent. He glanced hastily backward at Pilot Frederick T. Hawes seated in the rear cockpit just forward of the pusher-type motor. Pilot Hawes's eyes were half closed, his tongue protruded. He was being strangled by his scarf which was being wound around the hub of the propeller. Alert Gliderman Levin connected the dual controls in the front cockpit, grasped the joystick, kicked the rudder pedals, leveled and landed the airplane. Safe on the ground he looked again to Pilot Hawes, found him unconscious. Unlike Dancer Isadora Duncan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Scarf | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

...MYSTERY OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY-Edgar Wallace-Crime Club ($2). Stranglers work in Mark's Priory. Scotland Yard Boys Tanner & Totty clip the fiend at the end of a red scarf trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...murder stories, has Detective Chan present at a lugubrious houseparty. Present also are four ex-husbands of an egocentric diva named Ellen Landini. She is the one who gets the bullet. All the husbands are suspected. So are a maid, her husband who liked Landini, a jeune fille whose scarf was around Landini's neck, an old Chinese servant who speaks rudely. A peculiar circumstance : on two cigaret boxes of identical shape but different color, the covers have been inter changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Omnibus of Crime | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...cost of maintaining chains of theatres. It is harder to reduce invest ments in chains of theatres and the costs of running them than to reduce the costs of making pictures to fill them. Producers last year tried to make pictures for $200,000 each. Except Scarf ace, completed early in the year, there were almost none which cost more than $300,000; none, like Trader Horn, which cost $1,000,000 or more. All producers cut office salaries; most producers tried to cut the salaries of employes under contract. George Arliss and Richard Barthelmess reduced their own salaries. James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: State of the Industry | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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