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...what the effect would be," James ( "Jimmie") Donahue, Woolworth 5?-&-10? heir, cousin of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz. stepped onto a balcony of his Rome hotel, shouted "Viva Ethiopia " squirted a syphon of soda water at a group of young Fascists. Effect: two Government agents presently escorted Playboy Donahue to the Italian frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

Drue Van Allen (Barbara Stanwyck), in love with the driveling campus radical (Hardie Albright), is sent to Mexico to get over it by her choleric Army officer father. There she meets a roistering young soldier (Robert Young) whom she tricks into helping her get back to Washington. What at times, during the return trip in a trailer owned by an irresponsible person with a soft baritone voice (Cliff Edwards), almost becomes a passable imitation of It Happened One Night, degenerates on their arrival into a tedious display of Red-baiting, climaxed when the soldier breaks up the meeting at which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 7, 1935 | 10/7/1935 | See Source »

Back in Manhattan from a European junket, James Watson Gerard, Wartime Ambassador to Germany, windy chairman of the Committee on America Self-Contained, announced that the nation's "most influential person" is now Countess Haugwitz (Barbara Hutton). Grumped he: "There's an expressionless young woman who inherited $50,000,000 and now rushes about gathering titles, good or bad, with the speed of an antelope. She does her country no good and spends her money abroad. The result is a strong tax-the-rich sentiment that we're all going to suffer from if we've piled up a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 16, 1935 | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

Early in Depression, evincing a nicer regard for the feelings of their fellow citizens than their niece Barbara Hutton, Mr. & Mrs. E. F. Hutton cut down on their more spectacular extravagances. Not mentioned so frequently in Sunday supplements were their Long Island estate, their Adirondack retreat, their 16,000-acre preserve in South Carolina, their Manhattan penthouse or their Palm Beach home. Mr. Hutton, who maintained the Hussar, world's biggest sailing yacht, came out strongly for the commissioning of laid-up yachts as a means of increasing employment. His wife, broadening her philanthropies to include the Marjorie Post Hutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Broken-Down Employes | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...alliance between France and Russia that will soon be a three-power pact with U. S. the third party. Instead of playing down Russia and ignoring France it would be smarter for TIME to be first on the bandwagon and start the cheering for America's potential allies. BARBARA FLETCHER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1935 | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

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