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...year-old girl in the basement of her tenement home. In Chicago, a 17-year-old high-school junior was convicted of assaulting a girl of 9 in the basement of an apartment building. The girl recovered from 37 stabs from a rusty ice pick, a file and a pair of shears, was the State's principal witness. In Los Angeles, a 32-year-old watchman was on trial for raping and murdering three little girls aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pedophilia | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Year ago this citadel of British aristocracy was shaken when an "unprincipled young bounder" from Cambridge University hoisted atop the Squadron's masthead a pair of frilly, pink panties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Private Pants | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Zola, in the opening scenes, is the son of a middle-class French family, living in writer's poverty in a Paris garret. He shares both the garret and a single pair of trousers with Painter Paul Cezanne (Vladimir Sokoloff). One day Zola listens to the story of a girl of the Paris streets, sees in it the material for a novel and writes his first great success, Nana (a tale with which Producer Samuel Goldwyn and beauteous Actress Anna Sten had less success 54 years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prestige Picture | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

Three years ago the America's Cup yacht races off Newport ended with much public confusion over the various fouls, protests and rulings and British Skipper Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith swore he would never race U. S. Skipper Harold Stirling Vanderbilt again. Last week's concluding pair of the four successive British defeats in the 1937 America's Cup series found all hands publicly cheering each other but Skipper Sopwith a little groggy from the spectacular quality of his beating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Off Newport (Concl.) | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...Tans, those hard-bitten ex-Army men who were sent to Ireland in 1920 to shoot it out with the Nationalist guerrillas. Irish County Inspector Hannay (John Lodge) and British Captain Wiltshire of the Royal Intelligence Corps (John Loder) both dedicated to preserving British law & order, have captured a pair of important emissaries from Sinn Fein headquarters but their lorry is hijacked by a mysterious local Sinn Fein chieftain named Commandant O'Dea (Niall MacGinnis). Neither suspects that O'Dea is the high spirited young brother of Maureen Elliot (Antoinette Cellier), the Irish girl with whom both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 9, 1937 | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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