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...RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Clive Brook)?Best rubber-heeler appropriately played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Nov. 11, 1929 | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...writing was his naive pleasure in being mysterious. Director Basil Dean has retained Doyle's point of view wonderfully well, so that instead of an overwrought modern thriller The Return of Sherlock Holmes is good fun. Obviously relishing his role as the author relished his mysteries, Clive Brook, wearing sideburns, in a woolen hat and old-fashioned loungesuits, knows just how to handle the Sherlockian pipe, as crooked and heavy as a revolver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 4, 1929 | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...were Selected Industries, Inc., an investment company headed by R. S. Revnolds and the affiliated Reybarn Co., both of which are units in the $200,000,000 group of holding companies headed by Chas. D. Barney & Co. The investment was the purchase of Thomas Young Nurseries, Inc., of Bound Brook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Orchids | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

...large proportion of the lower classes have risen up to demand better conditions, the prosperous classes have cried "communism". History has also shown that desire for true communism is not compatible with a good living. The textile worker in the South is not really a communist of the Brook Farm or Bolshevik type. It is merely the American love of labels that makes him one. When the level of living conditions in the South has been raised to that of the rest of the country, the cause of imitation will be removed, and automatically the worker will be freed from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RUSSIAN INFLUENCE | 10/8/1929 | See Source »

George Ade, humorist (Fables in Slang), rose dripping from his bath tub to answer his telephone at his summer home near Brook, Ind. He skidded, crashed, skittered down the stairs, broke his left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 30, 1929 | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

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