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...form, the pretty face and the sharp French accent of Lily Pons. The operatic basis for its plot is the one which enables Miss Pons to carol Caro Nome from Rigoletto to her provincial music teacher, to make a big splash in Paris, to exhibit her navel in Hindu undress as she negotiates the spectacular Bell Song from Lakmé. Introducing a second formula, Henry Fonda, a U. S. musician who thinks he can compose opera, picks up Miss Pons, performs the impossible under France's laws by marrying her during an evening of drunkenness. Under the mistaken impression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 9, 1935 | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...punished. I have described her performance in the presence of my wife and our 12-year-old daughter. Women, after beholding such indecency, don't want to have children. It is wrong to say, as Maitre Torres has said, that she dances like a statue. Statues do not undress. She did. She may have been covered with makeup but she wore virtually nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Population v. Poetess | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...fashioned high-wheel bicycles accounted for the appearance in last week's news of George Washington in a striking state of undress. Noting a sudden public interest in the "bone-shakers" of the 1860s, United Pressman Frederick Othmann took up his hat and went over to Washington's Smithsonian Institution to research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Undressed Father | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...Freshman Class last night much to the chagrin of men living in Grays Hall. Sleepy members of the Class of 1938 were aroused by the noise of the sprinklers in the basement and flocked to the corner of the Yard near Lehman Hall, in various stages of undress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAYS SPRINKLERS AROUSE SLEEPY STUDENT ROOMERS | 10/6/1934 | See Source »

...Cream Soglow gave the King a son, the Crown Prince of Ice-Creamia, an amusing little moppet who behaved much like his father. For Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus department store Soglow drew a Queen who strangely exercised her royal prerogatives by appearing publicly in a state of undress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old King, New Kingdom | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

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