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...Clive Brook, Ann Harding, and Conrad Nagel form the triangle, and Joseph Urban designed the settings), but it is an honorable Victorian relic. Silliest sequences: the end in which Ann Harding, about to go blind, goes home for a last look at her child before walking over a cliff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Sharp selling brought Richfield Oil common stock to a new low of $2¼ last week. Brokers recalled its happier days when a pool, said to have been the first operated by William Crapo Durant's son R. ("Cliff"), sent it up to 54⅛ in 1928. Receiver McDuffie stopped reports that he would resign from Pacific Western, said eventually Richfield's creditors will be paid in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ominous Oil | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...cliff the whirlwinds beat, The octopus crowd comes rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Balladeer | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

...ferreting real estate agent with an eviction notice scaled the highest point on Manhattan, a cliff known to oldsters as God's Thumb, to city directories as Washington Heights, and flushed Sculptor George Grey Barnard into unexpected publicity last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Arch Man | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

Died. William R. Jackson, 36, of Madison, Ill., American Consul in Havana, his wife, Lillian, and John Tillotson Wainwright, 32, of Manhattan, Vice Consul in Matanzas; by drowning in Matanzas Bay, Cuba. Mrs. Jackson was blown from a cliff; Mr. Jackson attempted to rescue her; Mr. Wainwright attempted to rescue both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 10, 1930 | 11/10/1930 | See Source »

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