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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then playing a red-hot semi-final against England's Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin in which Austin won the third set 14-12 before losing the match in the fourth. The final between Budge and von Cramm was interrupted once. That was when Queen Mary arrived at her box just after the first set. Two years ago, Budge amused Wimbledon by greeting the Queen with a wave of his racket. Last week, more formal, he bowed from the waist. Before the interruption, Budge had won the first set, 6-3, taking the last five games in a row. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Wimbledon | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...Bertha's birthright was a mess. Her mother, a handsome blonde who advocated and practiced free love on her father's Kansas farm, had four children, each by a different man, took to the road when Bertha was an infant. Bertha's "first playhouse was a box car." Her progressive education began early: her teachers were labor agitators, I. W. W.'s, prostitutes. From their talk Bertha picked up her three S's: sex, strikes, socialism. Included in her haphazard schooling were two years during the War in an Arkansas cooperative colony run by radicals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Box-Car Bertha | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...exhibits Miss Davies as a stenographer who hides her good looks under a dark wig and glasses in order to reform a young novelist (Robert Montgomery) who has fallen in love with her -was that it may be the last occasion for such painfully insincere reviewing. Reported disappointed with box-office receipts of the pictures Cinemactress Davies has made since Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved to their studio from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935, Warner Brothers have announced no Davies pictures on their schedule for next year. Cosmopolitan Productions has announced no new affiliation. Another Dawn (Warner). First love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 5, 1937 | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

...were filled. British absentees were the 87-year-old Duke of Connaught, great uncle of King George, who, too feeble to take part in the service, watched the procession from a car outside the Chapel; the Duke of Windsor, a Garter Knight of 26 years' standing.* In a box high on the north wall of the Chapel, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, dressed in pink, gazed on the sea of blue, scarlet and gold beneath them, soon spotted their mother's father the Earl of Strathmore. This was the first time in 600 years that a father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 27 Garters | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...Frank Gillmore of Actors' Equity had forbidden Equity members of the cast to take part in the unsanctioned production. Singers got around Gillmore's rule by singing their lines from the audience. A Negro chorus gave tongue beautifully from the back of the house. Somebody in a box helped out with an accordion and for an hour and a half people felt something of that sympathetic union with the actors that directors dream about. When the opera ended, three Broadway producers rushed backstage to angle for a contract. None was signed, but a hastily assembled committee raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Postponed Cradle | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

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