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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three Loves (Moviegraph) is the ac- count of a well-curved siren who made life obnoxious for three men. When an elderly lover had eliminated her husband, she bewitched a youth who was about to depart on his honeymoon. In the midst of New Year's revels he tried to separate her from her consort, who took the occasion to murder her. Directed and acted with Teutonic power, the picture leaves a lingering impression of the heart's treacheries. If it is widely enough shown in the U. S. its heroine (Marlene Dietrich) may imperil the favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 23, 1929 | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Well, I can't see. . . . Well, why don't you. . . . Wait a minute. . . . Sure . . . that's simple. . . . Why didn't you tell me that before. . . . Well, of course, if you do it that way. ... A baby could understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cagle & Co. | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...Emocien!" ("How thrilling!"), the day after the game, Reginald Root, Yale '25, University of Mexico Coach, was called again into the presidential presence, to hear these gratifying words: "Football appeals to me more than any sport. . . . Our young men are virile and will soon learn to play well." Further, President Gil urged a contest between the University of Havana and the University of Mexico for the Championship of Latin America. Subsequently, the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn., accepted the invitation of the University of Mexico to play a game on Nov. 20 dedicating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cagle & Co. | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...destruction of an obscure reputation. She asked only $100,000, on the following charges: 1) aiding and abetting Convict Burns to "falsely and maliciously set himself up as a hero who was greatly wronged by his wife . . . making a hero out of a wicked and unworthy party, while well knowing the malice of said Robert E. Burns toward the plaintiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Villainess v. Villain | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Returning to Chicago, Burns met Emily del Pino (later Mrs. Burns, the plaintiff), who was then "37, of good character and morals ... in possession of a flourishing business and doing well." Burns boarded at her mother's house, during which time he illegally obtained pay-check money while timekeeper for a construction company. He borrowed $2,500 from Emily del Pino, started his magazine. He never paid back the money, she says. After the magazine was started, Convict Burns and Plaintiff del Pino were married "to the entire satisfaction and good wishes of his family" (his brother is a minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Villainess v. Villain | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

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