Search Details

Word: barbara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Robert Taylor lives in a small Beverly Hills house, keeps a Ford coupe for going to work and a Packard convertible for pleasure, has a valet. He wears berets, blue and white checked bathrobes, blue linen beach suits. Last summer, his association with Barbara Stanwyck was the most publicized Hollywood romance of the year outside of Mary Astor's. Currently, the Stanwyck-Taylor partnership, one of the conventions of which was that each gave the other an expensive present every week, is thought to be cooling. Last week, Robert Taylor announced he would travel to Washington with Jean Harlow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 18, 1937 | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

Oldest network on the Coast, Don Lee Broadcasting System has four major stations (KHJ, Los Angeles; KFRC, San Francisco; KGB, San Diego; KDB, Santa Barbara), just became associated with six smaller ones. The late Don Lee, a successful automobile distributor, bought his first station in 1926, founded the chain in 1928. The system began television experimenting in 1931, now televises nightly over W6XAO, once a week with synchronized sound from KHJ. President of Don Lee Broadcasting System since his father died in 1934 has been Thomas Stewart Lee, 30, a favorite in Hollywood cinema circles and a shrewd manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: M. B. S. | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Frolicking happily by the shore of a Swiss lake, the Craig children, Penny (Deanna Durbin), Joan (Nan Grey) and Kay (Barbara Read), find their mother in tears over the news that their father, a New York banker, divorced ten years ago, is planning to marry again. Instead of laughing at this news as sophisticated children might well do, the small Craigs react like little Peppers. They decide the situation demands action. Borrowing fare from their nurse, they embark for New York, arrive when Judson Craig (Charles Winninger) is sitting down to lunch with his inamorata, Precious (Binnie Barnes). From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

Newt Holley (Walter Brennan) planned to serenade his son Ernie (Joel McCrea) and the latter's bride Pearl (Barbara Stanwyck) with St. Louis Blues on their wedding night. He felt the tune might be a kind of charm to bring him a grandbaby. Newt never got to play the tune that night because Ernie ran away after he had knocked a man into the river for trying to kiss the bride.' When Ernie finally came home again he quarreled so with Pearl that she went to New Orleans with an itinerant photographer (Walter Catlett). Following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Dec. 21, 1936 | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...last week remained as co-headmistress. The first Greenwich plant burned in 1923, an event commemorated in innumerable subsequent fire drills. Altogether Rosemary has educated some 1,800 girls from prosperous families, including Mrs. Robert Alphonso Taft of Cincinnati, Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert, Jacob Gould Schurman's daughter Barbara Rose, Thomas Alexander MelIon's daughter Elizabeth and Lady Thornton, youthful relict of the president of the Canadian Pacific Railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Miss R'Treece | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

First | Previous | 1768 | 1769 | 1770 | 1771 | 1772 | 1773 | 1774 | 1775 | 1776 | 1777 | 1778 | 1779 | 1780 | 1781 | 1782 | 1783 | 1784 | 1785 | 1786 | 1787 | 1788 | Next | Last