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...Billy Arnold, motor race driver: the 500-mi. Memorial Day race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, while a thief made off with his private car parked outside the track. Said Speedster Arnold: "I'd like to find whoever took it. I'd give him a title to the darn thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Jun. 9, 1930 | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...Light of Western Stars (Paramount). One of the major failures of talking pictures is their inability to transform into anything more lurid than drawled "yes ma'ams" and "darn its" the blasting oaths which, in silent westerns, poured inaudibly from the lips of frontier villains. This Zane Grey story, however, is nicely photographed and contains all the proper western elements-mortgaged ranch, murdered cattleman, girl from the east, rescuer on horseback, crooked sheriff. It is all played humorlessly but fairly effectively by Richard Arlen, Mary Brian and a villain named Fred Kohler. Best shots: Harry Green as a Jewish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 12, 1930 | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

...safe bet that whenever TIME pans a (Continued on p. 69) movie that movie is usually a darn good show. I can't conceive of anyone not liking Showboat and in my opinion Laura LaPlante did better work in that play than she has ever done before. Also she does not meet the description with which TIME credited her. That is the only picture I can think of now which got panned but I know there have been others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 16, 1929 | 9/16/1929 | See Source »

Reported Engaged. Ruth Elder, trans-Atlantic flyer; to Hoot Gibson, cinemactor. A few days before the rumor Lyle E. Womack, divorced Elderman, now manager of a silver fox farm, philosophized, "It's a darn sight easier to tame foxes than it is to tame a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Newark, N. J., a Mrs. Mary Galabrese went into the mixing room of her husband's bakery, saw feet sticking from a stalled doughmixer, called police and firemen. The dead man was Gianto Darn, a worker in the bakery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Rabbits | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

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