Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When 18-year-old Charlotte Matthiesen told her 16-year-old sweetheart, Donald Carroll, that she was pregnant, they went to a cinema to talk it over. There the feature film, Mayerling (TIME, Sept. 20), in its tragic story of the death pact of Archduke Rudolf of Austria and the young Baroness Marie Vetsera, offered a better solution than anything their frantic minds could think of. So Donald got his father's pistol, shot Charlotte dead, but lost his nerve when it came to killing himself. Last week a New York murder trial jury heard this story, after almost...
...three months old-a circumstance that kept him from being the Populist candidate for President. With his health permanently weakened by fever contracted as a Union soldier, he wandered through the West, became a lawyer in Missouri and settled in Chicago in 1875. He had married a childhood sweetheart, written a liberal study of prison reform, and served as a judge, when he won the governorship...
...California Zoological Society, had managed to keep itself going. But it had never built a reserve fund from admission charges, sale of animals, concessions and, most important, renting animal actors to films. Among Zoopark's characters: Jackie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's trademark lion; Nissa and Sweetheart, leopards which stalked through Bringing Up Baby with Katharine Hepburn; Anna May, veteran jungle-film elephant; Lady, the whooping crane which danced with Shirley Temple in Captain January...
...chosen from the 234 published in last year's Saturday Evening Post revealed how greatly they had changed since that genteel period. Post characters in 1937 not only drank, smoked and swindled, but in one story (George Sessions Perry's Edgar and the Dank Morass) a backwoods sweetheart behaved with almost Erskine Caldwell abandon, although her behavior was suggested rather than described...
...Sweetheart," which opened at the University yesterday, presents the ever-lovely Alice Faye in a mild variation of the usual movie musical. To George Murphy, who owns up to having attended Yale, falls the enviable task of impersonating a millionaire and wooing Miss Faye. He is paid to do this by a scheming producer (Ken Murray) and enters into the thing with considerable gusto, even contributing a neatly executed tap dance. But the burden of the picture falls on Miss Faye, who is more than equal to it. Music and dialogue combine to make this a good picture...