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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...super-house" of When I Grow Rich is a glorified boarding house in Bloomsbury run by eight young, and mostly struggling, artists, doctors, and unclassified. Each lays claim to one charm or another, but queen of them all is Auburn whose frankness, not to mention beauty, intensely endears her to at least two of the boarders - one of them idle-rich, and pathetically eager to be of small services; the other poor, but Scotch and ambitious. The triangle is pulled awry by the affairs of the house - one boarder blackballs another to conceal a theft and a clandestine love affair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Super-house | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Wind: Lillian Gish's best picture in eight years. Shadows of Fear: French adaptation of a Zola murder story. Show People: Marion Davies turns the camera on itself, herself, her Hollywood friends. While the City Sleeps: Lon Chaney as a bloodhound with bunions. White Shadows in the South Seas: Fun among the sharks. The Singing Fool: Al Jolson's larynx. Dry Martini: Ritz bar (Paris) barians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citations | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...University Cross Country team will see action for the last time this afternoon when it enters eight men in the Intercollegiate Cross Country Run at Van Courtland Park, New York City...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 223 COLLEGE HARRIERS RUN IN SIX MILE TEST | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Eight Men Entered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 223 COLLEGE HARRIERS RUN IN SIX MILE TEST | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...English system which has made the Anglo-Saxon race predominant on every playing field, battle field, and tropical trading post in the world will be hard put to it to draw a moral from the most recent news flash emanating from the Towers of Oxford. Within the week eight hundred products of the traditional college system gathered together at the office of the proctor in answer to a bogus printed notice. Coming at 9.15 in the morning this practical joke must have broken up many a hospitable breakfast party, but the Oxonians even in disillusion maintain the leisurely tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IDOL SPECULATION | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

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