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...Emperor has received only one woman in private audience, Miss Evangeline Booth, "inas-much as she is a Commander." ?Fit to make Courtiers shudder is this popular nickname, recalling the period (1192-1867) when Japan was ruled by a Shogun or Tycoon, the power of the Imperial House being then in eclipse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Devil Tycoon | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...blond locks over it for the first time. Audiences did not always actually like the new music; but there was the exciting possibility of a new Stokowski gesture, a Stokowski gadget, a lot of Stokowskitalk. A typical performance was when, at a broadcast concert, he conducted in a glass booth, controlling the sound to his own satisfaction. It has since been learned that the dials he twiddled were fake ones, hooked up with nothing at all by radio men who were taking no chances. But the customers loved it, especially the fluttering ladies; they went on listening to novelties chiefly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No More Debates | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...hanging head-down from the deck of a moored sailboat, his head & shoulders under water, his feet tangled in rigging, his body wedged between boat and pier. At a hospital, where he was given a fighting chance to live, the man was discovered to be Charles Brandon Booth. 40, a regional director of the Big Brother & Big Sister Federation, son of General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 12, 1932 | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Albert James ("Albie") Booth, 24, Yale athlete; and Marion Noble, 23, New Haven secretary, his sweetheart since childhood; in Branford, Conn.; July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 15, 1932 | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

Central City's opera house was opened in 1878 when the town was a roaring mining centre. It soon became known as the finest theatre west of the Mississippi. Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson, Fanny Ward, Rose Coghlan played there. So did Actress Gish, as a child. When Central City's boom days were over the theatre was closed. Lately the University of Denver decided to use it for annual play festivals, of which last week's was the first. Patrons paid for hard hickory chairs. Director Robert Edmond Jones designed a stage setting lighted by old oil lamps. Composer Macklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Glorifier's End | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

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