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...Henry Ford in Ginsburg & Levy's antique shop on Madison Ave., Manhattan. Mr. Brisbane told Mr. Ford he ought to advertise his cars in the American Weekly (Hearst Sunday Supplement). Said Mr. Ford, "I guess you're right" and pulling a knife from his right trouser pocket, slipped it into his fob pocket. "That's how I make myself remember things," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...quoted as having said that in more than four years as head of B. U., during which he attended football games, parties, banquets, and smokers, he has seen only two students who appeared to have been drinking. He has never seen a student drunk or a student with a pocket flask...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EX PALUDE | 5/23/1930 | See Source »

...playwright (Nanette, The Love Letter)-as Preacher Wampus, and Actress Loftus, 53, onetime variety actress, music hall singer, who once trouped with Sir Henry Irving, Madame Modjeska, Edward H. Sothern, William Faversham. Part of Lost Sheep's revenue or deficit will go into or come out of the pocket of Musicomedian Jack Donahue, a backer of the entertainment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 19, 1930 | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...Amkino). To Manhattan last week came Producer Jesse L. Lasky and Director Sergie Michailovitch Eisenstein aboard the Enropa. In Director Eisenstein's pocket was a contract with Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. to direct their pictures, use his original art?an art of faces. Instead of finding an actor whose physical equipment, intelligence and training fit him to play a given part, Eisenstein looks for a human being who will be the part, whose performance in front of the camera will not be acting but a continuation of the life which that person lives daily. It is a method which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 19, 1930 | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...Harlem, N. Y., Thomas Allen, 45, was eating in a coffee pot.* The waiter took his catsup away. Eater Allen went for the waiter with a pocket knife. John Christor, proprietor, shot angry Allen dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 19, 1930 | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

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