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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Walt Disney will produce a badminton cartoon in which Mickey Mouse will oppose Donald Duck. In Hollywood, badminton is not only handy as a sport and reducing exercise but also as an excuse for new poses by actresses like Sonja Henie, Glenda Farrell, Joan Crawford, Anita Louise, Simone Simon (see cuts, p. 35). In addition to novelty, badminton has over tennis the advantage that, since the game consists largely of scrambling, the posture of the subject does not, like that of almost any actress photographed with a tennis racquet, reveal that she does not know much about the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Badminton's Rebirth | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Seventh Heaven (Twentieth Century-Fox). When Chico (James Stewart), Paris sewer rat whose ambition was to be a street-washer, rescued Diane (Simone Simon) from her sister, who was beating her with a strap, he wondered why he did it. His emotions became even more puzzling when, after he had agreed to give Diane temporary shelter in his garret, he found that he did not want to let her go. Not until he saw Diane in a wedding dress he had bought her, did it finally dawn on him that he was in love. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...little story seem even more sentimental than it is. Nonetheless, despite flaws in Henry King's direction and in Melville Baker's dialog when it occurred to them that the picture needed purple patches, Seventh Heaven retains most of its original persuasiveness. Even the alarming contrast between Simone Simon's baby-car-riage French accent and James Stewart's adenoidal Princeton one, gives their scenes together-of which the picture is largely composed-a pleasantly improbable quality in full keeping with the story's unrealistic mood. Good shot: Chico and Diane celebrating his debut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

JORDANSTOWN - Josephine Johnson - Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prizewinner's Second | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

Willard Scholarship to Joseph T. McCullough 1G, of Athens, Ohio; Austin Scholarship to Hollis M. Levenson 1GEd, of Cambridge; Phi Delta Kappa Scholarship to R. Vernon Hays 1GEd, of Ansley, Nebraska; and University Scholarships to David A. Grodberg 1GEd, of Worcester; and George B. Simon 1GEd, of Newton Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Corporation Approves Nine Stipends for Current Year | 3/30/1937 | See Source »

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