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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forbidden to see her son, screams to the bully who has beaten her that some day her son will be big enough to revenge her?when she is brought to court a murderess, too poor to hire a lawyer, and the judge appoints to defend her a handsome young man, yes, the son himself?and when the young man passionately and skillfully pleads the cause of the outcast woman?it all seems, on cool reflection, too crude to be true. But audiences do not reflect any more coolly during this picture than they did when the play was a stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...vaudeville she was one of those fat, supernaturally stupid girls who serve up joke cues to dapper comedians. Later, in Broadway nightclubs, her fame spread as a singer of semi-salacious, contemporary folk songs. She sang with Paul Ash's orchestra, later in the musical comedy Good Boy. Young men in eastern colleges have voted for her as their favorite actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago (Lee, Higginson & Co.), namesake grandson of the Associated Press' late general manager; and Katharine Temple Lapsley of Bedford, N. Y., granddaughter of the late Manhattan financier Howard Lapsley; in Bedford. Mr. Stone was once described and painted by Artist Thomas Casilear Cole as "the genuine, cleanminded young man of today in these United States" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...that the British had won the Ryder golf cup. It was big news. The U. S. had been expected to win as it won two years ago.* On the first day, when the foursomes were played, the U. S. had led, 2½points to 1½. Loose-jointed young Horton Smith from Joplin, Mo., did not play in the foursomes. Instead he followed Leo Diegel and Al Espinosa who, playing the best match of the two days, beat Britain's Boomer and Duncan seven up and five to go. The U. S. won two matches, dropped one, tied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ryder Cup Home | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...TIME, April 22), compared to 6.1 to 1 for New York, it might appear that New York pays relatively low-even sweat shop-wages. But no doubt the fairer explanation is the generosity of General Electric to its workers, whose statistics were eloquent evidence of the Owen D. Young theory that a corporation's responsibility is about equally divided between capital, labor, public. The public's share includes, of course, great sums of money spent on research which is not currently productive. No such sums are spent, for example, in New York's cloak and suit hagglery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: N. Y. v. G. E. | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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