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...most of her contemporaries how to indicate unrequited love without resorting to breast-expansion or weeping on an embroidered chaise longue. The picture's smart decor changes abruptly and briefly when, to prove that hard-working Lawyer Boles knows how to relax, an Easter scene at an orphan asylum is injected, wherein Boles, dressed in a magician's garb complete with plug hat, wig, barbershop mustache and false nose (see cut), does tricks for the inmates. Silliest sequence: Miss Muir being sent to jail for contempt when, quizzed by Boles in a divorce action for which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Jul. 15, 1935 | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...case a peaceful strike leader was seized, beaten up, almost stripped in the streets, taken to jail, held incommunicado, and finally put in an insane asylum in another county." Mrs. Pinchot revealed that it was through her endeavors that he was finally found and released...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MRS. PINCHOT TALKS TO LIBERAL CLUB AT P.B.H. | 4/26/1935 | See Source »

...Tobolsk and thence to Ekaterinburg. Naturally he defends himself, excuses his powerlessness to save the Romanovs by putting the blame on England. Kerensky says he did everything he could to get the Tsar and his family out of Russia while there was still time, says that England offered them asylum and then, when everything was arranged, withdrew the invitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death at Ekaterinburg | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...than 799 others have related it. Reduced to elementals, that is our problem." If it did nothing else, Private Worlds would be notable for the solution which it offers to the perplexity which caused Producer Lubitsch to forget his grammar. The boy and the girl meet in an insane asylum where he (Charles Boyer) is the superintendent and she (Claudette Colbert) a diligent psychiatrist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Apr. 8, 1935 | 4/8/1935 | See Source »

Three hundred orphans in an asylum near Ann Arbor, Mich, raised a tumult of delight last week when they learned that Professor Russell Welford Bunting, University of Michigan oral pathologist, had decided that acidophilus bacilli make teeth decay. That meant that Professor Bunting probably was through fussing with the mouths, meals, appetites and digestions of the 300 orphans, whom he has had under close dietary supervision for the past five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Why Teeth Decay | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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