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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since then Mme. Walska has been an ardent champion of the right of women to have legal residences separate from their husbands. Recently she went before the New York legislature with members of the National Women's party to advocate such a bill. Last week, the bill was voted on-and newspapers headlined "Walska's Pet Bill Passes." But it was Walska's pet bill in a deformed state. It gave New York women the right to establish separate legal residences for voting and office holding. For purposes of taxation they still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Walska Outwangled | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Letter (Paramount). None of the cinema's long succession of women testifying in their own defense has told as convincingly as Jeanne Eagels how she fired the shot that saved her virtue. None has begun her testimony with a more positive knowledge of her guilt fixed in the minds of the audience, which has seen her a minute before, transformed with fury, committing the actual murder. Rather an effective contralto phonograph record than a moving picture, the film follows the construction of Somerset Maugham's short story, a successful legitimate play last year, about the temptations of white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Stationed in the trig military centre of Andover, Hampshire, are some of His Majesty's most gallant officers and whole regiments of British Tommies who have a cocky, engaging eye for women. Last week these connoisseurs were utterly flabbergasted when they learned that Captain Leslie Ivor Victor Gauntlett Slight Barker, D. S. O., who was universally regarded in Andover as "a gentleman, and by gad a sportsman, Sir!" is in fact a transvestite? one of the most remarkable of modern times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Transvestite | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...arrest for "contempt of court," and was driven in a patrol wagon to Brixton Prison for males. After scrutinizing Transvestite Barker, the prison surgeon ordered her transferred to Holloway Jail for females. Some 24 hours later the Bankruptcy Court ordered her release, and she left Holloway Jail in women's clothes by a side entrance, thus escaping the peering eyes of a vulgar throng of at least 1,000 male and female Britons, most of whose vocabularies do not even yet contain the noun transvestite, the verb transvestize, the adjective transvestile, the adverb transvestily. Example: 'Transvestizing herself she became transvestile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Transvestite | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Another legendary deity who may well have watched the sanguinary progress of Mexicans, last week, is Xochiquetzal (see map), ancient goddess of both licit and illicit love, the patroness of mothers, and especially the tutelary deity of women who accompany and gratify soldiers marching to battle. So little has Mexico changed through all the ages, that last week much of the rough camp work and cooking for both rebels and federals was done by such patriotic women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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