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...Shreveport, La., stunt-loving Radio Station KWKH, owned by Henderson Iron Works, rushed a plane into the air for an endurance flight to anticipate the time when endurance attempts would become too banal for public attention. The plane stayed up 128 hours. Averred E. B. Redline, flight director: malicious persons put mud in the gasoline supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

Connie's Hot Chocolates is a ramified version of the floor show which is exhibited at a Harlem night club known as Connie's Inn. As in all Negro revues, there are banal scenes on the levee, dingy costumes consisting of overalls with patches on the seats of the pants. Yet for dancing, humor and dynamic showmanship, this is the best venture of its sort since Blackbirds. Best dancing: "Jazz-lips" Richardson (shuffles and sneaks). Best tune: "Ain't Misbehavin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...other two medals went to Novelist-Historian Owen Wister, because "America, right or wrong; colorful, adventurous, romantic, blind, heroic, banal, lives and breathes" in his pages: and to Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress, for 30 years of able service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quietly, Please! | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

...primarily challenges to the omniscient powers of that admirable institution, the Widow's, anybody, most of all Professor Lowes himself, will admit. That this state of things is comic and fantastic, as well as probably futile, Septimus Cromarty does well to point out, but to indulge in witless and banal personalities at the expense of a distinguished and wholly charming instructor is a procedure which will not recommend itself to the judicious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEEBE FINDS ADVOCATE SOURLY IMPERTINENT | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

About writing verse, Author March knows more than he knows about the fight racket. His descriptions beat with journalistic rhythms and, if somewhat banal, his pictures are graphic and exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Graphic Jargon | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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