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Some people, particularly your tennis reporter, might not agree that the presence of such well-known leaders in their respective professions as the late Will Rogers, Fred Stone, Homer Croy, Don Marquis, Helen Keller and Dale Carnegie, to mention a few, make our community a distinguished one, but after all, the presence of such notables in our midst secures for Forest Hills more publicity throughout the entire year, than do the tennis matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...organization founded in 1897 and supported by voluntary contributions-launched a campaign to rescue from the Continent any of these horses that had survived. The league had little difficulty in tracing them because each bears an identifiable Army mark. Moreover a noted Belgian animal lover, the Dowager Duchess De Croy, provided the league with a list of all the old horses in Belgium. Whenever the League finds a British Warhorse and has enough money on hand, they buy it for about $100, take it to the League's stables in. Brussels, put the horse to grass for perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Rescued Heroes | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...pages, well-cushioned with advertising at both ends, was routine pressagent photography. But the textual interpretations of current U. S. moods, fashions and philosophies as seen in the Cinema, were impressive. Critic Richard Watts Jr., Director Rouben Mamoulian, Author Jim Tully, Singer Mary Garden, Scenarist Homer Croy contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Film FORTUNE | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...troubles by making love at large. His first serious affair is with Joanna Ryan, a simple country girl. Though their love is true, simple Joanna is not so simple as to tie up with the wandering circus boy. When she finds herself pregnant she marries a farmer, Elmer Croy, who loves her too much to mind premarital infidelity. Pierre travels on with his mother, gets a big-time job with Haines's Roman Circus as chariot rider, gladiator. In this capacity he fascinates Leah, a waning mistress of wealthy benefactors long deceased. Pierre and she take up together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hero & Philander | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

...rest of the performance he comports himself like a good rube character actor. He takes the part of the grandfather of a family which has grown rich in Oklahoma oil and which has decided to go to Paris to see the sights. The attraction is adapted from Homer Croy's novel They Had to See Paris. The few moments of talent in the entire production, aside from those supplied by Mr. Sale, occur when Lois Deppe and his Negro jubilee singers appear. Hello Paris cannot be favorably compared to another musicomedy based on the same idea called Fifty Million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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