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Cain and Artem (Amkino). This adaptation of one of Maxim Gorky's stories shows the fellowship of three people?a giant, a Jew, a fishmonger's wife???in a miserable town beside a Rus-sian river. Theirs is a fellowship of rejection: the giant does not know what to do with his strength; the woman is in disgrace because she is unfaithful to her husband and because she was a beggar when she married; everyone in the marketplace cheats the Jew and spits on him. The bond that draws slowly tighter, pulling them together, although not strong enough to keep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 23, 1930 | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Married. Gladys Glad, 21, "highest paid" showgirl (Whoopee, Rosalie, Rio Rita, No Foolin'); to Mark Hellinger, 31, newspaperman; in Manhattan. To a fellow newsman Mr. Hellinger wired: "When we get back from Hollywood you must come over and meet the wife???but not too often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...modists who have drawn the old-style plans is Mr. Joseph R. Grundy of Pennsylvania. "Who is Mr. Grundy?" ask the ill-informed. "We have heard of his wife???or his sister-in-law?or of some Mrs. Grundy?but who, oh who is MISTER Grundy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Tariff-Makers | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...tries to solve problems of motive by having his leading character, Harry Trotter, take strange and solitary walks into the night. For no good reason, Trotter leaves his wife, drifts into the bootlegging business. In his relations with gangsters and with other women, his mind takes jumps to his wife???her mannerisms, her legs. Finally, as he decides to go back to her. he is shot in a gang feud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Virile Tang | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...FRENCH WIFE???Dorothy Graham ?Stokes ($2). Victor de Lambesc left his American wife in Touraine while he set off in an airplane for Africa and another woman. On the way, his plane fell and squashed him to death. This left Denise de Lambesc, netted in a foreign tradition, to fashion a slow existence for herself, for her two sons. Faced with the choice of a new husband, she at last declines the proposals of her husband's stepbrother although these are reinforced by the per- suasions of his family. Instead she marries her U. S. lawyer, Bryce Sutherland (clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Denise | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

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