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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Quinze" boudoir through an enormous circular bank-vault door; an unwary visitor plunging through a trap door as Capone, sitting at a richly carved desk, presses a pushbutton; Capone's "daughter" stepping into her armored limousine big as a moving van. A similar but not so expert array of faked pictures was published April 1 by the Chicago Daily News Midweek. These pictures showed bathing beauties riding under water on pickerel, an old-time chorus girl on a high-wheel bicycle dropping from a blimp by parachute; a monkey-headed robin perched beside a nestful of dice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...which the audience, like the bride, had been looking forward to, but it is staged so much in the spirit of good clean Will-Haysian fun that it loses even the little vitality it had in the stage piece, Apron Strings, from which the scenario is adapted. Expert playing manages to make the story funny in a way that is partly meek, partly blatant. Nugent does not begin to behave humanly until friends have taken his mother's letters away from him. Jean Arthur, Allison Skipworth and Tully Marshall all work hard, and their combined efforts might have made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Organist-Mature, reverent, devotional results. Expert voice development and always...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Poser | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...lowest tones in nature are made, not by thunder as many might think, but by giant waterfalls, according to an announcement made last week by Dr. William Braid White, acoustic expert for American Steel & Wire Co. (U. S. Steel subsidiary). Dr. Braid offered as evidence sound waves photographed this spring at Niagara Falls. The sound of water falling from a great height, or the echolike undertone that falling water makes, shows from 30 to 42 cycles of vibratory waves. Thunder's pitch is considerably higher, starting at 50 cycles and crashing sometimes as high as 40 cycles above Middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lowest Notes | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...considering adopting Banker Mitchell's suggestion. They do not think that commercial telephone television is yet by any means practical. First, it is too expensive. A roomful of light transforming equipment, another roomful of motors, and at least two expert engineers are needed for each sending receiving station. The transmission cost, without figuring equipment, is more than 20 times ordinary toll rates. A. T. & T. is experimenting because it feels that sometime a practical use for television may crop up. Only uses conceived so far: for separated sweethearts, for identifying criminals, for the convenience of bank depositors who want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Television | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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