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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Widow from Monte Carlo (Warner) frames the noteworthy Aztec beauty of Dolores Del Rio in an inadequate story about an indiscreet duchess who suspects the man she loves of selling a billet-doux which has really been stolen from him. A sorry little romantic comedy in which Warren William, Colin Clive, Warren Hymer, Herbert Mundin and Louise Fazenda are also miscast, it is not improved by badinage like the following, between Mundin and Fazenda: "Having a nice time, Ducky?" "Don't call me Ducky!'' "All right, Ducky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...breakfast and thence, very serious, to examination which I did write; and, I did feel, very well; but was much disturbed by man at back of me who did grunt and puff and say strong things most violently. "Poor soul," thought I to myself, "the widow hath failed him again." But I to finish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/31/1936 | See Source »

Rudyard Kipling had his own explanation for why he was not made Poet Laureate and it had no reference to the Widow at Windsor. Some years ago an admirer involuntarily exclaimed, 'I always had thought you were Sir Rudyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: King of English | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...particular Stavisky's widow, handsome onetime Chanel Model Arlette Simon, protested during the trial that in 1926 he swore to her that he would "go straight." She vowed that she never doubted he had gone straight until after his death and the disclosure that he had swindled Frenchmen out of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'Misplaced Confidence | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

Several years ago her purchasing became too widespread for her to do all by herself. To her assistance as a special agent under special circumstances went handsome, grey-haired Edith Halpert, widow of Painter Samuel Halpert, onetime efficiency expert for deflated S. W. Straus & Co., and for the past ten years director of the Downtown Gallery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 53rd Street Patron | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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