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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alimony but she wanted full custody of 20-month-old Linda Susan Agar ("The worst thing about all this," she said, "is what it will do to the baby"). To Louella's colleague, Columnist Sheilah Graham, Shirley unburdened a little more: "The trouble with my marriage started two and a half years ago, when Johnny started to drink My suit doesn't mention the drinking,'but it has become unbearable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Dignified Manner | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Injun fight in the whole film. For some unaccountable reason the hair-raising possibilities of authentic history have been submerged in the muddled and often maudlin story of an overaged cavalry officer (John Wayne) in a U.S. Army outpost. More unaccountably, the paste-pot yarn was put together by two veteran scripters: Frank Nugent and Laurence Stallings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Trollope was carrying home up her raveled sleeve, they would have found some way to keep her in town. "I cannot speculate," said the redoubtable old dame, "and I cannot reason; but I can see and hear." The London firm of Whittaker, Treacher & Co. thought so too. Barely two years later, when Cincinnatians were still guffawing every time they passed the crazy shell known as "Trollope's Folly," a book appeared that roused one of the loudest howls of pain and outrage ever heard in the Midwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feathers from the Eagle's Tail | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Back in 1908 Merchant Peter Kessler took Johnny Edge into his business of running and later producing two-reelers. At first they are tightly fenced in by the movie combine, but through Johnny's shrewdness and Peter's stubbornness they break the monopoly and set up Magnum Pictures in Hollywood. Johnny serves in World War1 I and loses a leg, an injury which results in his psychic hardening, followed by his abandonment of sweet young Doris Kessler for a nymphomaniac actress, Dulcie Warren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hollywood Pulp | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Some barber shops are apparently destined to be a cut or two above the average tonsorial parlor. It is difficult to compare two places of trade when the primary function of both is to trim one's hair. Maybe it is the clientele one place caters to, its general appearance, or its atmosphere, which enables it to build up a distinctive reputation. But a most unimposing barber shop which keeps in business, and very much so, for 50 years, must have some unique attraction...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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