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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into it 44 years ago, acquires a little more in Mr. Loraine's presentation of the breakdown of a paranoiac mind. Its theme: "Love be tween the sexes is Strife." Adolph (Rob ert Loraine), a Swedish scientist, is con fronted with the problem of what to do about a servant girl who has been seduced by a soldier. Says the soldier (Barrie Livesay) : ''How can any man know if he is the father?" This is the germ of the scientist's obsession. His wife (Dorothy Dix) cunningly suggests that he may not be the father of her child, and persistent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Revivals | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...Left Bank is saved from banality by fine, quiet performances by Katherine Alexander as Claire and Donald MacDonald as Waldo. For humor the play depends on 1) the pseudo-Gallic antics of the hotel servant (Alfred A. Hesse); 2) inconvenient plumbing; 3) the wallpaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...Master, fly for your life!" shrilled a good and faithful servant last week at Chinese Foreign Minister C. T. Wang, Yale 1910, Phi Beta Kappa. "I shall remain at my post and attend to my duties," boldly retorted Minister Wang. Crash, rip, zip, bang! A frenzied mob of students rushed the Foreign Office, burst through hastily locked doors, hurled chairs and toppled desks, charged in wild pandemonium for Mr. Wang. "Traitor!" they yelled. "You have betrayed China! Death, death to Wang!" Before defenseless Minister Wang could rise, a well hurled inkpot gashed his head. Mobsmen with clubs laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Minister Mobbed | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...wife) with a riding whip. He was known as "Europe's greatest spendthrift." In 1926 it was claimed that when Americans were subscribing millions for starving Germans he was feeding his 80 hounds on tenderloin steaks, offering creamed sweetbreads to his lapdog. Bibulous, he made his body servant drink three bottles of champagne in quick succession and cackled: "You are drinking for my pleasure, not yours.'' He made the same servant drink a mixture of Worcestershire sauce, pepper, sherry, port & brandy; made him crawl on the floor like a dog, bark, eat out of a saucer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 28, 1931 | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...woman, might easily become a heroine in less clever hands than Author Davis'. Theodora is the adventuress of the family, with two firm feet to fall on, but she turns weak as water before her outlandish Syrian lover. Best scene: farewell of Bertha Geiger. half-cracked old family servant, to her mistress who does not remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: German Ulysses-- | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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