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...Distant Shore (by Donald Blackwell & Theodore St. John; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer.) In 1910 a U. S. patent medicine salesman and unlicensed dentist named Hawley Harvey Crippen gave his wife, a music hall wench, an overdose of hyoscine, chopped up her remains, buried them in the coal cellar of their London home. He then took his secretary into the house to live with him, fled to Montreal on the S.S. Montrose when his late wife's friends infected Scotland Yard with their suspicions. The only elements in the Crippen case which might possibly raise it above the low level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 4, 1935 | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...thirteen a whom pirates are still compositions. When his oldest daughter being to quiz him on the sex life of the ear be has brought as a gift, the father begins to suspect something amiss. When he finds his oldest son engaged in an affair with a mercenary Portuguese wench, and his two youngest offspring engaging in heated discussion of Freudian neuroses, he is sure there is something amiss. When he meets the young professor he finds out what...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/1/1935 | See Source »

...niece (Sidney Fox) and her ninny of a fiance to despair by selling all his possessions to buy a library of chivalric romances. He sallies forth, enters a tavern where strolling players are performing. Vastly amused, they dub him knight. He swears fealty to his Dulcinea -a tavern wench. Arousing his trusty Sancho Panza (Robey) from bed, the old knight drags him off on a career of errantry. Dreamy, hollow-eyed, grandiloquent, Don Quixote perpetually fancies he is dealing with giants or magicians. His bewildered but eager squire does his best to help and coddle the old zany. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 31, 1934 | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...Crown, still rates as perhaps the No. 1 smutty story-teller in a nation of smutty storytellers. Up last week stood Old Tutor Jorga to raise boldly in Rumania's Senate the issue created by His Majesty in continuing to live in open sin with a Jewish wench. To many a U. S. newsreader King Carol's liaison with red-headed Magda Lupescu is only a spicy tidbit cooked up by sexational tabloids, but as a matter of fact in intensely anti-Semitic Rumania their relationship is a real and burning national issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Old Tutor on Royal Sin | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

...suppressed speech Dr. Maniu in tended to say further that he had counted, as Premier, upon a reconciliation between King Carol and the wife he abandoned for jolly Wench Lupescu, beauteous Queen Helen, the cousin of the Duchess of Kent. "It was our purpose after this reconciliation had been effected," Dr. Maniu would have said if he could, "to proceed to the joint coronation of Their Majesties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Old Tutor on Royal Sin | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

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