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Word: walliser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Combining in fresh and spontaneous form the kinetic appeal of Lives of a Bengal Lancer with the patriotic fervor of Cavalcade, The Charge of the Light Brigade will be important to cinema students less for the solution it offers as to the riddles of the Light Brigade than for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Harold Brett Wallis, 39, went to Chicago's McKinley High School, got his first job sweeping out the office of an electric company, soon became sales manager for Hughes Electric Heating Co. From sales, he branched into advertising, later into show business. In Los Angeles he was managing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

The office behind the door is modest, unostentatious, paneled in dark oak. Wallis spends 12 to 14 hours a day in it. Outside is a lounge resembling a small cocktail bar where daily waits a long succession of writers, supervisors, agents and technicians for decisive two-or three-minute interviews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 2, 1936 | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

In Pittsburgh last week fashionable clothes were being shown by Thelma, Lady Furness who introduced Mrs. Simpson, the onetime Miss Wallis Warfield of Baltimore, to H.R.H. Last week Lady Furness' sister, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, said: "Yes, Mrs. Simpson is a good friend of my sister and of mine. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Innocents Abroad | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

*Ernest Aldrich Simpson was born of a British father and a U. S. mother in 1897 in Manhattan. From Harvard ('19) he went to Britain's swank Coldstream Guards and into his father's London firm of ship charterers, Simpson, Spence & Young. He married in 1923 and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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