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...eyed, brown-haired, India-born daughter of an English stock broker, who got part of her training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, made a hit on the London stage in The Mask of Virtue, played subsequent cinema roles in Fire Over England, Storm in a Teacup and A Yank at Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...last fortnight, when the French Academy elected its latest "immortal," the usual storm in a teacup overflowed into the saucer. Successful candidate was 70-year-old, deaf, withered Charles Maurras, expert on Provengal dialect, author of innumerable, little-read novels, poems, philosophical and political studies. Maurras' election precipitated a scandal, not because he was a worse writer than several other "immortals," but because his election marks the most stinging slap in the face that the Republic has yet taken from French Royalists. Royalists dominate the Academy, but Maurras' Royalism is in a class by itself-it goes back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Immortal Election | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Storm in a Teacup (Sara Allgood, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Rex Harrison; TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Storm in a Teacup (Sara Allgood, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Rex Harrison; TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Storm in a Teacup (Sara Allgood, Vivien Leigh, Cecil Parker, Rex Harrison; TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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