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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...killing him and because you have read the title. This part of the picture is nicely constructed and told with some good shots of a Hollywood studio?the only ones that have come along for quite a while. When the actor is found dead on Stage Ten you stay to find out who killed him? his wife, his director, the nightwatchman's daughter, or her brother, or the nightwatchman, or the fellow who is in love with her. You guess all the time that the director did it, so you are disappointed to find in the end that you were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...Graphic circulation grew, so did the Winchell fame, the Winchell salary. But the salary-growth was not rapid enough to suit the ambitious gossip purveyor. I And said he: "I was willing to stay with the Graphic because of the amazing liberty I enjoyed, but I became unhappy because of a double cross about money." This year, he said, the Graphic promised him $300 a week, 50% of syndicate receipts. Neither the $300 nor all the 50% forthcame, Winchell related. But in his desk was a contract with the Hearst organization for a weekly salary of $500 plus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Turn to the Mirror | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Fortnight ago in Atlantic City, a Mrs. Tillie Anapol's baby son was hospitalized for diphtheria. She demanded to stay with him, but was of course ejected. She thereupon got a ladder, placed it against a window of the isolation ward, spent five nights and days on the ladder top, soothing, encouraging, comforting her young. Press photographers, marveling at such devotion, came to take her picture, drove her away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Maternal Love | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...dear!' Aurelia would exclaim. 'I'm half dead with shopping!' Then, if it didn't happen to be one of the days for hair dressing, manicuring and facial beautifying, they would go to the movies and stay until after five. ... 'I do wish I could find time to take French or music or something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Again, Tarkington | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...paintings have their place and will stay. The editorial was a very foolish thing for the Crimson to print." --Boston American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Man to Man | 6/4/1929 | See Source »

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