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Day after day, month after month, clouds of oily, aromatic smoke billow up from the dumps on which Brazil's Government continues to burn coffee in a frantic effort to support its price. Last week the Government announced that since June 1931 over 14 million bags (containing 132 Ib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Smoke & Mirth | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Because of the simplicity of the play, a good deal of old-fashioned proverbialism is expressed with considerable force, but nowhere does the play flatter itself into searching after Truth. The weak and henpecked husband, and the wilful, self-seeking, and unattractive wife and elder daughter are all foiled in...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/10/1932 | See Source »

Daughter Giulia was the old Doge's pet. Beautiful, wild and wilful, she was a magnificent horsewoman and used to spend $200,000 a year on her clothes. At one horse show she wore 17 different costumes. Newspapers once published her dress budget. It included 365 pairs of gloves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Doge of Elmhurst | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

An exhibition of these pictures is sensational. But sensational not only for its novelty, but because the "Surrealistes" often deliberately purpose to shock and surprise, so that you may be deprived of all preconceived standards open to new impressions. They intend to shock, as the safe-breaker might pare the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/3/1932 | See Source »

Possessed is calculated to have a more disastrous effect than most upon morally malleable persons who witness it. Joan Crawford, again a brunette, impersonates the mistress of a thriving politician (Clark Gable). Rich, wilful and ingratiating, he gives her the trite benefits of illicit love-an apartment with glass doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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