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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first U. S. President of the "common people" (1829-37), the fine ok southern mansion was the political centre of the land. Later it served its owner as a refuge from political storms. "Old Hickory" and his Rachel lie buried nearby under a huge magnolia. In 1856 his adopted son sold it to Tennessee for $48,000. Now it is valued at a million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Out of Bounds | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...attorney or the husband oftener than the hero, gets fewer letters than younger stars, but has established his reputation as one of the most skillful actors in Hollywood. He is married, six feet tall. Some of his good pictures were The Doctor's Secret, The Divine Lady, Sorrel & Son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...ponderous leer at Wall Street corruption. It has that annoying air of knowingness peculiar to bad parlor realism. In extraordinarily ornate offices, ballrooms, conservatories, H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson and Jason Robards argue and glare and pull each other around. The triangle includes a banker and his son who do not want their accounts investigated, a government investigator, and the investigator's wife who was once-and still is-in love with the banker's son. People who go to the movies every night will have trouble making out who is the hero and who is the villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 9, 1929 | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...fleshy nose, thick lips, grey eyes, a blighted look. He worked as tutor to small André Grosgeorge. Once Madame Grosgeorge surprised the two in the garish lesson-room when André was stumbling over his history. Gučret heard the softness in her voice as she called her son: "Come closer. . . . Raise your head and look at me." Then, clenching her teeth, she struck the boy suddenly across the face and with sadistic greed in her black eyes, watched the red mark fade. Horrified, Gučret could not help admiring her vitality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pursuit of Happiness | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

Engaged. Ruth Elder, trans-Atlantic air passenger, Women's Air Derby contestant (see p. 50) and Walter Camp Jr.. President of Inspiration Pictures, Inc., son of the late great football coach. "Miss Elder's" divorced husband. Lyle Womack, returned last winter from the Byrd Antarctic expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

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