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...element of gaiety from the picture, permits Phillips Holmes, as a mustachioed playboy, and Miriam Hopkins, as a nice girl from the West, to obtain parental consent for matrimony. The involved train of events in Two Kinds of Women?adapted from Robert E. Sherwood's play This is New York???makes for comedy of a sort. One reason it fails to achieve it, is possibly Phillips Holmes, whose gloomy, dazzled and polite impersonation is identical, except for the mustache and his lines, with the one he gave in An American Tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...York???practically every type of bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Lapses & Leniency | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...Allen Walker, plump, double-chinned & fun-loving. Unlike Alfred Emanuel Smith and his Katie, Jimmy Walker and his Janet are not inseparable companions and mates. Nevertheless, at her Miami Beach, Fla. home where she has been since December, Mrs. Walker made known that she was going back to New York??? though she wasn't sure exactly when?"to stand by Jim and our guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Scandals of New York (Cont'd) | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

HACKING NEW YORK???Robert Hazard ?Scribbler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Taxi Driver | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

Robert Winthrop Chanler was born auspiciously enough on Washington's Birthday, 1873. His family was and still is socially prominent in apple-raising Dutchess County (above & east of Poughkeepsie), New York???a family full of "characters" and legends, a wealthy family that can indulge its eccentricities. At the age of ten Bob drew an indubitable horse on a large piece of paper, took it into the parlor for his parents to admire. They refused to believe that he had done it, punished him for lying. Discouraged, he did not try to draw again, for another 25 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Portrait of a Titan | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

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