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...Noel Coward once told Mrs. Ethel Harriman Russell, daughter of Washington's famed Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman: "You're no actress; you're a monologist. Why don't you write a play?" Last week, after a trial period, Mrs. Russell signed a regular contract as scenarist with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, planned to take her two children to Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 6, 1934 | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...London stage, Noel Coward, acting in his latest play-with-music, Conversation Piece, fell gravely ill, insisted on finishing his part. Afterward surgeons performed an appendectomy in what they called "the nick of time." Dodging newshawks in California Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told her breathless pursuers: "If I had charge of the Dillinger search, I would call off the police and send reporters after him?they would be sure to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 23, 1934 | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

Spunky little Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who rules Austria amid the incessant banging of Nazi bombs, heard himself flayed by radio from Munich last week as a coward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Cowardice & Compromise | 7/16/1934 | See Source »

...retired matador, living in dignified respectability in Granada. He thought he had a right to expect some of his three sons to follow in his own mincing footsteps. But Miguel was born lame, so his only future was the Church. Juan, his father's favorite, was a physical coward. Pepe, the eldest, became a matador, but he lacked his father's touch. Pepe liked the life, however, learned all the dissolute extracurricular tricks. When his father arranged a marriage between him and Pilár, known to be a beauty, thought to be an heiress, Pepe quickly found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Toro! | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

...ROAD LEADS ON-Knut Hamsun- Coward-McCann...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Happy Ending | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

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