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One would not think that the Yard is about to burst into bloom. Trunks stand at each entryway, and express trucks career and careen along paths where on ordinary days only a desultory laundry cart is now and then to be seen. The dingy, white lumber heaps that desecrate the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IF YOU HAVE TEARS--" | 6/17/1926 | See Source »

Los Angeles, haven of the spiritually restless, has a mystery. Its famed and wealthy evangelist, builder and owner of the $1,000,000 Angelus Temple, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, has disappeared. No one can account for her. All that is known is that three weeks ago she entered a beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Disappearance | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

Six years ago she sang in Paris, later in London, Rome, South America. For more than three years, impresarios have been trying to lure her to the U.S. Broken contracts, excuses about fear of the sea, homesickness, personal ties intruded, and not until E. Ray Goetz, husband of Irene Bordoni...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays: Sorceress Meller | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

At Amsterdam there arrived Miss Pattie Field, 24, of Denver-and her mother-and many trunks. Titled Amsterdamers, the local consular corps, a scurrying squad of pressmen, welcomed her, found her good to look upon, looked. Miss Field looked back, with both a twinkle and a glitter in her bold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Consul Field | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

With gracious feminine evasiveness she parried all efforts of the correspondents to draw her out into some statement that could be revamped as "copy." With incisive, feminine neatness she ordered her trunks unpacked, and though no prying reporter saw, her U. S. friends well knew that there came forth: a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Consul Field | 1/25/1926 | See Source »

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