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A crowd on a windy street jams itself around a little shop-door above which a loudspeaker blats out its staccato, excited sentences. A roaring mob in a smoky arena stands up on its feet howling again and again. The grizzly farmer puffs faster on his pipe, his wife's...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 11/8/1932 | See Source »

"I was elected to oppose this Govern-ment but in my first speech I must support them!" cried Mr. Lloyd George. "I was the leader of the delegation which negotiated the Irish Treaty [in 1921] so I have had experience with Mr. de Valera. There is no one quite like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Irish Question & Ottawa | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

"Temple of Peace" In the sermon he prepared for the dedication, Bishop Freeman wrote: "Nothing could be more fitting in a time so critical, fraught with such momentous events, than this service. . . . The very fact that this Temple is but partially completed seems to suggest that the vast work of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For National Purposes | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

Letty Lynton (MGM). The heroine of this picture further enlightens cinemaddicts on the pains of promiscuity. Letty Lynton (Joan Crawford) not only has lovers. She has one who is patently the lowest grade of Latin American, and she kills him with a dose of poison. So rude and forceful are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

Not excepting Norman Bel-Geddes, a genius whose accent usually obscures the individuality of the playwrights he stages, Robert Edmond ("Bobby") Jones is the ablest designer of the U. S. theatre. Audiences will long recall his skillful settings for The Green Pastures, Mourning Becomes Electro, The Emperor Jones and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Theatre | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

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