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...Some say he had "a boyishly stern squint"; others proclaim him a practical joker and tell how he once answered his roommate's desire for a drink of water with a glass of kerosene. He is 25, more than six feet tall, rangy, handsome, blond. He knows flying as the barnstormer with a $250 plane and as the chief pilot for the St. Louis-Chicago air mail route. He is a prominent member of the Caterpillar Club, having four times become a butterfly and descended to earth in a parachute. In the Missouri National Guard he earned the rank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flight | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...hundred Bowery bummers signed and sent a petition to Salvation Army authorities last week: "We, the undersigned, wish Isabella Austin to stay on the Bowery. She did a lot for us while she was here and we do not want to lose her." The girl, 19, blond, slim, small, cheery, had been giving street talks along the Bowery the past three months, had led many a corner prayer. But the strict Salvation Army rule, that workers must be frequently shifted to new localities, was behind her instructions to proceed to Morristown, N. J. Her orders not rescinded, she reported there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Street Talkers | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...Triumph of the Rat. This last named film (an English production) is "shot" from shrewd angles; contains Paris den and ballroom scenes; has a lean, dark hero (Ivor Novello) who can make love like a gentleman and gnaw a bone dramatically. The lady of the film is Isabel Jeans, blond as honey. The plot gyrates masterfully. Few spines will fail to gyrate when exposed to it. The Notorious Lady (Lewis Stone, Barbara Bedford). Her ill fame was gained in court, where she painted herself a scarlet woman in order to save her husband arraigned on a murder charge. As usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Pictures: Apr. 25, 1927 | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...Miss Millay (Mrs. Eugen Jan Boissevain), blond and sprightly in crimson and gold Florentine brocade with a long train, burst out after the curtain calls: "No one sleeps tonight! It is our New Year's!" She had worked steadily, through illness, for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eadgar, Aethelwold, Aelfrida | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...mother. Being ageless, however, he outlives her too and wanders thereafter, unhappy and confused, through the rest of U. S. history, down to the present. His old hatred of death as the source of fear has been replaced by hatred of life, source of despair. But a mysterious blond man who has haunted him all these years, takes him for an automobile ride and explains that Arthur must love his fellowmen; that the future of humanity is divinity. . . . The tale is not unreadable. It does nothing if not rush. Over the last 75 years it puts on such a burst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Men Like Gods | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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