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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The guardian of Boston's theatrical morals started life as a trap drummer in burlesque houses in the days when chorus ladies carried spears. He became kettledrummer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but his career as a tympanist was cut short when he met with an accident and had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ribbons for Boston | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

By accident a Manhattan physician. Dr. Lucy Du Bois Porter Sutton, 40, has discovered a quick palliative if not a certain cure for St. Vitus's Dance, hideous childhood disease. Victims twitch, quiver, quake and grimace uncouthly. The posturings resemble a grotesque dance like the oldtime "shimmy" and "Charleston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fever v. St. Vitus's Dance | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

Warner Bros, had two reasons for a British studio: 1) to evade quota restrictions which state that 10% of all cinemas exhibited in England must be British-made; 2) to improve facilities for making pictures with foreign backgrounds or foreign language pictures for consumption outside the U. S. Paramount has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Warners in England | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Susan was religious. She had a visionary imagination, a lively sense of an egocentric cosmos. Once she was called on to testify at a Sabbath meeting of the Colgate Brethren. She succeeded so well she became a frequent preacher. As her fame spread, her ambition grew. Then she fell in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old time Religion | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Her latest thriller about her standing hero Lord Peter Wimsey is quite up to snuff, and lengthy enough to last out the most sleepless night. In a little fishing-&-painting community on the Scottish coast everybody knew quarrelsome Campbell and few liked him. When he was found dead near a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old time Religion | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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