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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoe-string impresarios try to promote. No Harvardman was ever more blond and decorous than Jack Whiting (America's Sweetheart). No impresarios were ever more feverishly active than droll, cow-eyed Jack Haley (Free For All), and hook-nosed Sid Silvers, who used to sit in an upper box and insult Phil Baker. Cropping out here & there in the proceedings is curvesome, loud-shouting Ethel Merman (Zimmerman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1932 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...sparingly at these dinners. I avoid the thick filet mignons, the rich dressings and the heavy food. At from 10:15 to 10:30 o'clock I say good night. If the occasion happens to be a dance I may sit in my box till midnight but never later. My rule is that I must be in bed between 11 and 12. I must keep in training, almost like an athlete. My exercise is obtained from walking. About two o'clock every afternoon I leave my office at the Capitol and walk briskly for a mile or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lamest Duck | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

Acclaimed by both Percy Hammond and Brooks Atkinson as one of the most interesting plays that have graced the News York stage in this year when there has been a flood of meritorious productions, "Dinner at Eight," which opened at the Music Box last month, has not been esteemed too highly. The work of another of those fruitful Kaufman-Ferber collaborations, the play has set before the audience the intensely interesting elements that make up a dinner party at the home of Mrs. Oliver Jordan. "Just a small party. Lord and Lady Ferncliffe will be here, two dear friends...

Author: By H. B., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1932 | See Source »

Cantor: "He'll be in a box on Sunday and I'll be in a box on Monday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Academy Awards | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...MYSTERY OF THE GOLD Box?Valentine Williams?Houghton Mifflin ($2). The British Secret Service again diligently fights Old Clubfoot, for the papers in that snuff box...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scholar-Warrior | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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