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<text>
<title>
(1930s) Gay Divorce
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
Theater
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
Gay Divorce
</hdr>
<body>
<p>(December 12, 1932)
</p>
<p> The halting little tale which Gay Divorce has to tell relates
the adventures of a young man who finds himself at an English
seaside resort pining for the girl he spent a day with a
fortnight before, after which she vanished. Her sudden
reappearance is fraught with complications, since she is bent
on getting a divorce on the strictly technical grounds of
adultery and soon is under the delusion that her young man is
the professional co-respondent for whom she is waiting. Dancer
Astaire, the young man, only once loses his temper with Miss
Luce, the extremely tempting young woman. With the assistance
of Mr. Porter, he outlines some of her bad points:
</p>
<qt>
<l>You don't sing enough.</l>
<l>You don't dance enough,</l>
<l>You don't drink the great wines</l>
<l>of France enough...</l>
</qt>
</body>
</article>
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