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Once, fiercely booed for 15 minutes, Mr. MacDonald left a Seaham platform without speaking while hundreds chorused, "You're a liar!" But more often Mac-Donald "platform magic" worked. The dignified, silver-haired Prime Minister won votes and wrung hearts by solemn sob-stuff. He dragged in his long dead wife: "In the old days, the first days, my wife and I had to pay for the postage of the Labor Party! We bought out of our own pockets-my wife and I-the very notepaper on which Labor's work was done. . . . Labor is in my blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Oh, Ramsay, Dear | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

...Sob Sister (Fox) had a good director, Alfred Santell (Daddy Long Legs); a brilliant dialogist, Edwin Burke (Bad Girl) ; two able principals, Linda Watkins, recruit from the Manhattan stage who caused a rumpus among Hollywood press-agents when she failed to be elected a "Wampas Baby Star of 1931," and James Dunn, who gave a fine performance in Bad Girl. All of which makes it disappointing that Sob Sister emerges as a routine, though fairly lively, drama dedicated to the stale proposition that newshawks are animated by semi-religious loyalty to their employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...idea to the choir leader, Mrs. Nellie Davis, Atlanta night-school teacher, a graduate of Atlanta University in 1922. Nellie Davis built the idea into Heaven Bound, a play that is part pageant, part revival meeting, part spiritual charades in which the only part not sung is the sob of the Wayward Girl, "Too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heaven Bound | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...Warden Albert MacDonald of the reformatory pleaded "I'm guilty, but not to blame." But vigorously did he deny that his discipline was too severe. Said he: "An aged woman from California [Dr. Van Waters is 43] was sent here to make the investigation. She was of the sob sister brigade. Our discipline is the least rigorous in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Accidents | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...their honeymoon, contrived new bedroom stunts to keep them on the front pages. So, too, for need of a current "master mind of crime," a dullwitted hoodlum named "Bum" Cadman was built up into a king of outlaws. So, too, were girls in the street paid by photographers to sob publicly at the funeral of Cinema-sheik Adolphe Valerino. (Few days before, Editor Peters had sold out an entire edition by the ingenious banner-line: VALERINO DEAD-followed by small type reading: Says Rumor Fortunately Not True...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editor Bares All | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

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