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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the son of one of the accused passionately denounced his father as a traitor to the proletariat. During the Schakhta proceedings several of the accused pleaded "not guilty," defended themselves wildly, vainly in a dramatic radio dialog with Prosecutor Krylenko, who beat down their defense as a tiger claws to bits a bleating sheep. Last week however all the star prisoners-six of the eight accused-expressed a desire to plead guilty, entered the courtroom with bulky, manuscript confessions which they proceeded to read in turn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Supreme Propaganda | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...vitality and good looks. She was a headliner on the Keith Circuit when she was five, nearly 40 years ago. She went to high school for two years between road-shows. Since the days of her thrillers (Ruth of the Rockies, The Timber Queen, Ruth of the Range, The Tiger's Trail), one of which she wrote and directed herself (The Adventures of Ruth), she has been out of pictures. She built up a real estate business in Los Angeles and made several million dollars, one million of which?as a grand gesture rare in life but common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joy v. Monopoly | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Pagan Lady. This is the first time in 13 years that bushy-haired, voluptuous Lenore Ulric (Tiger Rose, Kiki, Lulu Belle, Mima) has not appeared under the aegis of Producer David Belasco. Gossipists have assumed that the reason for the rift is that Miss Ulric was unwilling to appear in the current Belasco offering, Dancing Partner, that the memory of unsuccessful Mima still rankles. But tradition dictates that any Belasco star who marries automatically leaves his service.* Pagan Lady is Actress Ulric's first vehicle since she was wed to Sidney Blackmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Instantly Papa bristled. He too had to fight under the irascible Tiger of France. "Foch," he snapped, "was right! Clemenceau-" but the Marshal did not finish. He knew a newshawk was listening. He has vowed that his memoirs shall not be published until after he is dead. Therefore he slipped back into his character of "Papa," concluded urbanely as snippets of whiskers fell all around, "Yes, Foch was right, but [shrugging his sheet-covered shoulders] soldiers and politicians are not always made by the Good God to get along with each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Papa & Barber | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...TIGER VON BERLIN?Good murder mystery, competently handled by an all-German cast, in all-German dialog (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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