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Plot B is about Janet Haley (Barbara Stanwyck) just out of jail and trying to find her baby daughter, whom her bank-robber husband hid in some unknown place before he was shot. A gangster named Innes (Stanley Ridges) tells her he will lead her to her baby for $1,000 or her "friendship." When she tries to steal the $1,000 Gangster Hanlon has sent to Interne Kildare, Kildare foils her, learns her story, falls in love and gets Hanlon to capture Innes, who is seriously wounded. Kildare performs another emergency operation and Hanlon forces Innes to reveal that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...Princeton University, now working at Harvard: Horace Taylor, of Brookline, past president of the Bond Astronomical Club: Leon Campbell, Pickering Memorial Astronomer of Harvard; Dr. Bart J. Bok, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Harvard; Miss Edith Jones, of Waldron, Ind., second year graduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe; Miss Barbara Cherry, of West Roxbury, first year graduate student in astronomy at Radcliffe; Dantel Norman, of Malden, graduate student in astronomy at Harvard; and Frank K. Edmondson, of Cambridge, graduate student in astronomy at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASTRONOMY PLAYS HOST TO A THOUSAND PEOPLE | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

...house without his knowledge, which scared him into bolting the doors. Upon learning that his friends were breaking through the windows and holding parties of another character entirely, he notified the Beverly Hills police. When the police began grilling the youngsters last week, first to break down were Barbara Page, Marjorie Folsom and Vallee Rice, all 16. Much of what they told Deputy District Attorney Florence Woodhead seemed to that bespectacled prosecutor "too flaming to repeat." One night eleven couples were lined up waiting in the hall outside the two bedrooms. "Speed" Morgan was accused of plying Barbara Page with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Culver City Nest | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Woodworth, to replace ex-Dean of Women Mildred Helen McAfee who left Oberlin last year to become President of Wellesley (TIME, May 25). One outcome of this intercollegiate shuffling is that Dean Woodworth, a blonde, bustling administrator of 41, will rule over her onetime superior's daughter. Junior Barbara Wriston, who preferred Oberlin to Lawrence. At the same time, Oberlin appointed as consulting architect to supervise a $230,000 centennial building program an old Oberlin boy, Richard Kimball of Manhattan's Kimball & Husted. Chief building Architect Kimball will be concerned with is a physical education unit for women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oberlin Overhaul | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Without previous experience in journalism, Ann Marsters obtained her job three years ago and became an important personage of the Boston American over night. Her first assignment was to interview Barbara Stanwyck. Since then she has met and written about countless people of note...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ann Marsters Admits Old Fascination For Undergraduates but Thrill Is Gone | 3/16/1937 | See Source »

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