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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Close Harmony (Paramount). John V. A. Weaver wrote most of the dialog and Elsie Janis the story of this picture. Designed with no higher aim than to give Buddy (Charles) Rogers a chance to play the saxophone, it turned out better than you would expect. Nancy Carroll splits up a vaudeville team by flirting with each member in turn so that Rogers can get their booking. Best shot: vaudeville love in the back seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Nine years ago," he says, "I started to lift weights. I have never stopped. Then I weighed 94 pounds. Now I weigh 179 pounds and have never felt better in my life. I eat almost anything, but I do not drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Strong-Men | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Johns Hopkins in their sophomore, junior or senior years. Their selection will depend upon state committees of chemical companies and educators, and upon their "health, ability to cooperate, creative ability, intellectual honesty, persistency, faculty of observation, enthusiasm, initiative, reliability, conduct, morality, scholarship." The aim: to produce younger and better chemists. The chair which Chemist Gordon occupies at Johns Hopkins was given by Manhattan Lawyer Francis Patrick Garvan, chairman of the Johns Hopkins Chemical Foundation, onetime (1900-10) Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. He, no chemist, was last week given a medal by the American Chemical Society for being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Selection of Fittest | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...Early Autumn). Awake and Rehearse includes a third sort of American, the Henry James-Edith Wharton expatriate variety. Bubbling over with abundance of "material," Author Bromfield has been praised for having much to say, blamed for saying it hastily in slovenly prose. This time he says less, says it better. Awake and Rehearse is a macabre title for a group of 13 stories (four are new; nine have appeared in magazines), each of which concerns death in the form of a corpse, or a jar of human ashes, or eyes with the light gone out of them. Approximating novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thirteen Deaths | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...this relationship in good faith; it was a straightforward, entirely legitimate business transaction, mutually advantageous and desirable, which should not be questioned; but there has been criticism of the policy of your company holding even a minority interest in a newspaper. Without discussing that contention, I feel it is better to remove all possibility of a misinterpretation of the motive which actuated our relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vertical Combination | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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