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...Cornell in "The Wingless Victory," a warm breeze from the South Seas in her sarong and suffering the inevitable fate of the exotic flower trampled down under the heavy hoof of cold New England. That talented lady must appear Elizabeth Barrett Browning, with or without sarong and Malay hairdress. And, after all, Salem isn't so very far from Wimpole Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/9/1937 | See Source »

...faces of all the other First Ladies. For Sculptor William H. Egberts of the Smithsonian avoids arguments with friends, relatives and the subjects themselves by giving all the Presidents' wives the face of Frances Pierce Connelly's bust of Cordelia, daughter of Lear. Her costume, contours and hairdress (a loose, high knot) will be preserved but completely lost will be the unrouged freshness, the amazing vitality of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Eleanor Everywhere | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

First comes a shot of Fairbanks running around a boat deck; then one of Fairbanks dressed in a bath-towel, doing his exercises. In Japan he plays golf, provides a pictorial essay on Nipponese methods of hairdress, has his cameraman photograph Fujiyama. Next is a picture of a map, with Fairbanks running across Asia and making a big jump to get to the Philippines. In Siam he has lunch with King Prajadhipok, laughs at the picture of himself perspiring in a stiff collar. In India he examines a snake, shoots a leopard, expresses conventional approbation of the Taj Mahal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

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