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...Rich Full Life (by Vina Delmar) should be seen, if at all, when it becomes a rich, full movie. Right now, the matinee trade that comes to sniffle will remain to squirm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Other New Shows In Manhattan | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Explanations. In Atlantic City, N.J., six-year-old George Patrick McLaughlin of Philadelphia was discovered hiding in a locomotive tender, promptly demanded spinach, explained he was en route to join the Marines and fight the Japs. In Jefferson County, Mo., twelve-year-old Vina Marler Nash, newly married, commented, "It's pretty nice. ... I guess I won't have to go back to school this fall." In Junction City, Kans., Marguerite See, a bus driver, drove with one foot bare, explained, "I can do a smoother job on the clutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...Federal workers to eight a day; 8) ruled that Cabinet Ministers must spend three hours each day receiving the public in order "to keep in touch with the masses"; 9) gave tacit approval to the appointment of a Communist as Mayor of Valparaiso, a Socialist as Mayor of Vina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Flying Start | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...from Hollywood to Agua Caliente, lost so much gambling at the Casino that they had to borrow money for gas to drive home. When they came to file their joint income tax return for 1933, Eugene remembered to deduct the $1,200 he had lost at chemin de fer, Vina the $300 she lost at roulette. Under the Revenue Act of 1934 this posed the problem as to whether the Delmars had undertaken their gambling for recreation or profit. Called before the Board of Tax Appeals, chunky Eugene insisted he had gambled for profit, to prove his experience testified that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gambling Delmars | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...Vina and Eugene Delmar are a happy-go-lucky pair of citizens. They married when they were both looking for jobs on Broadway, graduated to writing for Snappy Stories magazine, now have a very good job collaborating on fiction and cinema scripts for which pert Vina (Bad Girl) invariably gets the credit. Last week the inseparable Delmars were put asunder for the first time in 17 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gambling Delmars | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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