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...Saunders (Wings) for Liberty, later made into a cinema (TIME, Aug. 31). Now the well-picked carcass has been scraped once more to produce something which might be called a musical tragedy. It is a bewildering, sometimes embarrassing, occasionally entertaining piece relating the experiences of a pretty girl (Fay Wray, the author's wife, in her first legitimate appearance) and four neurotic aviators she has picked up in Paris after the War. To convey the impression that they are just too world-weary, Author Saunders has arranged that they reply to all efforts at normal human communication with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 12, 1931 | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Paramount has dropped three ingenues of experience, all still young and pretty: Jean Arthur, Fay Wray, Mary Brian. Reason: three new ingenue possibilities can be hired for the salary of any one of the three leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Planning Season | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Conquering Horde (Paramount). This picture includes all the sequences acceptable to fanciers of western pictures. Carpetbaggers follow herds across the border and are harassed by a cowboy (Richard Arlen) whose ulterior motive is love for a beautiful but pure girl (Fay Wray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Hollywood high-school miss who took lessons from a tutor while playing her first lead eight years ago, Fay Wray has since distinguished herself by extreme versatility in incongruous roles. Mauritz Stiller gave her a leading part in Street of Sin. Later she was billed with Gary Cooper as one of "Paramount's Glorious Young Lovers." In The Finger Points (see above) Actress Wray impersonates a sweetly scrupulous girl reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Yankee Stadium uniformed men come out and tread down the turf that was dug up during play.... A certain New York football expert has compiled statistics which reveal the fact that 78 times out of 100 the team which scores the first touchdown eventually wins the game.... Coach Wray has cut down the weight of the football uniforms of the members of his team from 14 to seven pounds. This might make them subject to more bumps, but ought to allow the backs to get up more speed.... Coach Rockne, of Notre Dame, recently wrote to a Chicago paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/25/1930 | See Source »

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