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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>
- </text>
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