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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Success at Any Price (RKO) is a manual of futility, bitterness and despair, adapted from John Howard Lawson's play Success Story and designed to bludgeon home Hollywood's maxim that money is not everything. Joe Martin (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is prompted by the death of his gangster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

Weakened by its off-key conclusion, Success at Any Price is not improved by Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s skin-deep performance. Colleen Moore appears for the first time since she started a comeback in The Power and the Glory (TIME, Aug. 28). Mousy, pallid, indecisive, she is no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 14, 1934 | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

In 1707 Scotland was struggling to preserve its Presbyterianism, establish free trade with the English colonies, seat her peers in the House of Lords. But in a lonely castle on Maxwelton's hillside the year's real problem was a pretty, dark-eyed girl who fancied she loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Scotch Romance | 5/14/1934 | See Source »

The Gold Coasters boast these boatings: cox. Joseph H. Macey '36; stroke, A. Douglas Robertson 1G; 7, John H. Mendenhall '36; 6 Peter W. Jopling '35; '5, Frederic H. White ocC; 4, Collier Wrighter '36; 3 Richard B. Johnson '36; 2, Horace A. White '36, and bow, Frank B. Lawson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/3/1934 | See Source »

Beyond the small Manhattan sector where songs are published and songwriters remembered, little is known of the men who wrote the homely old tunes which today are almost U.S. folksongs. Last week Douglas Gilbert of the enterprising New York World-Telegram traced the fortunes of some oldtime songwriters in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Where Are They Now? | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

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