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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Charles Percy Dixon, 66, captain of the British tennis team which defeated Australia, captained by the great Norman E. Brookes, in the Davis Cup challenge round of 1912; after long illness; in London.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Two giant star clusters first found by the Blue Hills Observatory last spring have at last been identified, with great importance to astronomical research, Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Blue Hills Observatory, revealed in Fort Davis, Texas, yesterday.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley, Astronomy Head, Announces Identification of Gigantic Star Clusters | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

Dark Victory (Warner Bros.-First National), if it were an automobile, would be a Rolls-Royce with a Brewster body and the very best trimmings. Though not up to Wuthering Heights (TIME, April 17), it is one of the best star vehicles Hollywood has produced this year. As a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

As Judith Traherne, Bette Davis is a horsy Long Island heiress with a stable of steeplechasers and a tongue like a riding crop, which she and her friends blame on her unusually severe hangovers. She discovers, from a personable young brain surgeon (George Brent), that her headaches have a more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Though this plot gives the film an unfair advantage over sentimental audiences, and Actress Davis plucks every heartstring she can lay a finger on, under Edmund Goulding's delicate, direction she makes Dark Victory moving but not morbid. The picture allows pretty, able newcomer Geraldine Fitzgerald (Wuthering Heights) to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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