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Above their barricade the truculent peasants raised a banner. "We Will Kill Every Jew In Transylvania and Buko-vina!" Presently in Bucharest a young anti-Semite forced his way into the Min- istry of Interior, shot acting Minister Constantin Angelescu in the hip, neck, head-perhaps fatally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Kill Every Jew! | 7/28/1930 | See Source »

...comment on "Dance Hall" now playing at the Keith-Albee Theater must necessarily be limited by the facts that the theater was pleasantly darkened and the waking hours of the reviewer few. It is difficult to determine the exact relation of Vina Delmar, authoress of "Bad Girl" with the plot of this production. Surely there is nothing so dowdily moral as the morality of a cheap Dance Hall as portrayed upon the screen. Yet, the fact remains that the sociologist who may go to gain information on the correct dance gestures and colloquial idiom of the truly jazzy will probably...

Author: By S. P. F., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/29/1930 | See Source »

KEPT WOMAN-Vina Delmar-Earcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Belmar's Delmar | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...Bronx, New York City's northernmost borough, famed for bourgeois baby carriages, walkups and dingy streets, was fairly immune to litterateurs until Mrs. Vina Delmar began to leer in its direction. The result of her first leer she sold for about $60 to Snappy Stories, brisk woodpulp fiction monthly. Thereafter her Bronx first-novel Bad Girl, was wreathed by the Literary Guild, and, like later Delmar books, was read by millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Belmar's Delmar | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Readers of the U. S. best seller Bad Girl by Viña Delmar, were intrigued by announcements that the "Season" is now opening at Chile's famed watering place, Vina del Mar. Authoress Delmar's publishers, Harcourt Brace & Co., state that they are informed concerning her as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Perhaps Spanish? | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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