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...besides, I'll instruct you, like me, to entwine the myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wanted: An Anthem | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

Bowdoin--"The Girl in the Show" and "Venus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

Exeter--"Her Private Affair" and "Venus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 12/13/1929 | See Source »

...feasting and testing their strength, hurled down hillsides by battle, or sticking out their tongues and making faces while they dance. Best shot: reflection in water of the great pattern of trees in which the tribe clings, swinging as they "sing a good-bye song for tribesmen going away. Venus (United Artists ). No poet's goddess of pearl rising from the dark blue of an Aegean wave is Constance Talmadge, but a distracted flippant Venus left over from a past, an extravagantly rococo period of the cinema. Action of this silent picture hinges on a report, visibly confirmed, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...bulk as only a giant could uphold, yet her body and her members were hardly larger than an infant's." Rita had a soul of "spiritual perfectness." To amuse Rita, Jason brings a trained seal from the nearby carnival. The seal's owner comes, too-Zarna, Diving Venus of the show. Zarna would like to live at Jason's farm, not only for her own sake but for the seal's. That is why she accepts Jason when he proposes marriage. Later she refuses to bear a baby, and saves Jason from drowning. Both these things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Baby | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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