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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone agreed that Jack Crawford could be counted on to win his two singles matches for Australia, that Lott & Stoefen would win the doubles for the U. S. That left the issue of the Davis Cup interzone finals squarely up to Australia's Vivian McGrath (pronounced McGraw), the extraordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup: Finals | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

". . . and preachers sagely nodded while Salem witches screamed and shriveled" ("Wall Reunion." TIME, July 9). Does "shriveled" mean some shrinkage or withering due to natural causes?or did a TIME writer, like those Puritan preachers, nod? In either case, because no modern delusion is more widespread or persistent among intelligent...

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

Director John Cromwell's version of Maugham's novel starts when Philip Carey (Leslie Howard) learns in Pans that he is a mediocre painter, makes up his mind to study medicine in London. Near the end of the picture Carey under goes an operation which cures his clubfoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 9, 1934 | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

The most surprising thing about Of Human Bondage is not that it was made so well but that it was made at all. That this version possesses much of the patience and clarity of Author Maugham's writing is by no means due entirely to a fine performance by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 9, 1934 | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

When Bette (pronounced "Betty") Davis went to summer camp, she was thrown into the water daily to wash the mascara from her eyebrows. They are naturally black. Her hair is ash blonde, dyed pale yellow; her enormous eyes, blue. This combination caused Carl Laemmle Jr. to decline to hire her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 9, 1934 | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

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