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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this production, directed by Sidney Franklin, Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery play through the almost actor-proof situations of the comedy with savoir-faire which equals if it does not excel that of their predecessors, Author Noel Coward & Gertrude Lawrence.* It is a play about two tender-hearted but irascible worldlings who, having divorced each other and remarried, meet again on their second honeymoons. Re-captivated by each other, they scamper away from their new spouses, enjoy a truant honeymoon in an Alpine chalet. By the time the deserted and negligible husband and wife arrive at the chalet, the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 28, 1931 | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...White Plains, N. Y., Mrs. Mary A. Hudson left some platinum-based false teeth, one set more than 60 years old, "to the dental colleges in the hope that they may prove an incentive to dentists to equal or possibly excel the work of Dr. John Allen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

Intense desire to excel plus artless popularity is a rare combination. With it and with much besides, Assistant Secretary Ingalls is regarded by Elder Republicans as the kind of energetic, intelligent young man of whom the G. O. P. can make good use in years to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Fleet Problem 12 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Torch Song. Few playwrights excel Kenyon Nicholson (The Barker, Eva the Fifth) in exploiting honkytonk, backstage or carnival scenes. Few producers can put on a better show of this sort than Arthur Hopkins, who directed and helped write Burlesque. A Hopkins-Nicholson collaboration has now resulted in an extraordinarily valid and impressive play called Torch Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 8, 1930 | 9/8/1930 | See Source »

...vehicles in which she has appeared include: Beyond The Horizon, Back Pay, A Good Bad Woman. Hot Rhythm. Producers of Negro reviews almost always make the mistake of trying to ape the elegance of contemporary Caucasian extravaganzas, as though afraid that just dancing and crooning- at which blackamoors often excel whites- are not sufficient for an evening's entertainment. For this reason, the comedy of Hot Rhythm is often unfunny, the attempt at magnificence unimpressive. Best, most natural humor in the show is offered by plumpish, sleek Mae Barnes, who delights many a spectator with her slatternly, lazy dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Theatre: Sep. 1, 1930 | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

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