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...theatre. Barbara, second daughter, was the first to go into the movies, before she became a dancing partner of the late Maurice (Maurice Oscar Louis Mouvet). Now she is the wife of Radio Tenor Morton Downey, who last week became temporarily blind from exposing his eyes to a sunlamp. Joan, youngest daughter, married when she was 16, divorced at 18, now gets $2,000 a week from Fox (current picture: Hush Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes, bow-lips and an expletive vocabulary reputed to be the equal of her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Even at the last minute the conference lived up to its reputation for the unexpected. While the 14 delegates blinked at a battery of cameras, a short-circuited sunlamp set fire to one of the saffron window curtains. The 14 delegates sat, dignified and stately, while excited waiters and cameramen rushed about with fire extinguishers, put out the blaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: By the People's Advice | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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