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There apparently is very little field for invention once a playwright has started out to write a show about a minister and a bad girl. One can generally count on a second act curtain in which the minister, having visibly weakened in his fight against the devil and his pomps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

That's The Woman is the latest offering of Playwright Bayard Veiller (The Trial of Mary Dugan, The 13th Chair). In the first scene spectators are apprised that a young socialite (Gavin Muir) will indubitably go to the electric chair for the murder of his best friend unless he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 15, 1930 | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

To the Council they brought back information which was startling and dismaying. Their statistics revealed that 132,628 steelmen, or 53.4% of the whole number investigated, were still working ten hours or more a day. Of these 16,610 worked twelve hours, 5,320 worked eleven hours, the rest worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Church v. Steel | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

Delhi, in southeastern New York, contains some 2,000 souls, is known as "The Village Beautiful" and its main street is concreted and curbed. It has six churches, and last week many of its churchgoers were proud. Reason: in one week two upright sons of Delhi had become newsworthy U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sons of Delhi | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

For 20 years both churches had labored toward the reunion. In Edinburgh last week, on the Lawnmarket, by the Cathedral, a long column of Auld Kirk divines joined a column of free churchmen. After handshaking and congratulations the lines, reformed, all marched as one column into the Cathedral. "Behold How...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lawnmarket Reunion | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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