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Bela Lugosi, son of Banker Baron Lugosi. was born in Lugos, Hungary, 49 years ago. He stands 6 ft. i in., has bulging blue eyes, was a famed actor in Budapest for ten years before the War. A sympathizer of Count Karolyi during the Revolution, he fled Hungary when the Royalists returned to power. In 1925 in Manhattan he learned the lines of a Spanish Apache in The Red Poppy, without knowing enough English to know what he was saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...Brown of Culver (Universal) has nothing to do with the famed English story of school life, Tom Brown's School Days, by Thomas Hughes. Tom Brown of Culver is named for Boy Actor Tom Brown. It is a relatively plotless, episodic picture of life at Culver Military Academy in Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...known rules. The Curies concluded their ray "cannot be of an electronic or electromagnetic nature." It is probably a ray of neutrons. Irene Curie-Joliot and her husband did much of the preliminary work in radiation that helped Neutron-Discoverer Chadwick. Mme Curie-Joliot, 35, looks faintly like Actor John Barrymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smallest Thing | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

Seeking Divorce. Maurice Chevalier, actor; from Yvonne Vallée Chevalier; in Paris. Grounds: incompatibility. Before their marriage Yvonne Vallee was Chevalier's music hall dancing partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 1, 1932 | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...Nick, the 800-lb. blue gnu in Detroit's zoological park, is a bad actor. He has killed one of his mates, two of their calves. Last week Big Nick was in another bad humor: his new mate had just presented him with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bad Gnu | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

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