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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quest of legendary diamonds encased in Africa's jagged Drakensberg Mountains go doughty Allan Quartermain (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Kathy O'Brien (Anna Lee), Captain Good (Roland Young), Sir Henry Curtis (John Loder) and Umbopa (Paul Robeson), a burly, black Zulu. On the desert trek the reckless fL'e almost perish from thirst. In the mountains they are tolerated by Kukuana savages only because the superstitious blacks believe bemonocled Captain Good to be a white god. Before they attain the mines he is required to demonstrate white magic in the form of an opportunity-scheduled eclipse. Umbopa proclaims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 12, 1937 | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Amiably discussing the song with a reporter, Trombonist Riley told how he had played it on a battered German flügel horn for several months this autumn, how it had become a sensation among metropolitan stay-up-lates, how Rudy Vallee had put it on the air, thus starting its phenomenal popularity. As to the tune's creation, Riley said that one night a girl came into the Onyx Club. "She's pretty high," he recalled. "She says, 'Is that instrument hard to play?' I say, 'Why no. You just sing it. You blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho ! | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

Score--Yale 23, Harvard 15 1-2. Goals--Baldwin 10, Mills 8, Phipps 5, Luton 2, Dillingham 3, Nicholas 1. Fouls--Nicholas 1. Score by chukkors: Hds, Fl. Tot. Yale 5 8 5 5 0 0 23 Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE POLOISTS TRIUMPH DESPITE HANDICAP OF 10 | 3/14/1932 | See Source »

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