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More impressive if not more efficient than any of his confr??res was a 200-lb., 6-ft. 3-in. Czechoslovakian named Roderick Menzel, who plays in long shorts and woolen socks that come up almost to his knees. A minor poet and novelist in Prague, Menzel began to play tennis seriously eight years ago. Although he liked it much less than soccer, he soon contrived to be his country's No. 1 player. This season he carried Perry to five sets at Wimbledon and beat Crawford in the European Zone Davis Cup final. If Perry, the defending champion, plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennists to Forest Hills | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...that Cecil Blount DeMille survived most brilliantly the earthquake of the talkies is not to imply that he is still, as he was in 1924, the cinema's No. 1 director. Although it is true that most of his confr??res inject into their work as little individuality as the day crew of an automobile assembly line, DeMille is not the only one who has a method of his own. Any directory of directors should include Frank Borzage (Seventh Heaven, Farewell to Arms), Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade, Berkeley Square). Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), Ernst Lubitsch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: DeMille's 60th | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...bright and early in the morning the three adventurers swam in the country club pool, visited local homespun weavers, motored 40 miles down over the mountains to visit their confr??res, Misses Vance and Vale (Tryon Toy Makers) who for a generation have been teaching wood carving to the hillbillies of Polk County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Just Running Around | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

Brahm's Quartet in B flat by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Columbia, $10)?Brahms in a solemn, pastoral mood treated by the Leners in the lush, romantic fashion characteristic of their gypsy confr?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: April Records | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

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