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...your grandfather is the short, grizzled man with a hare-lip, two glass eyes, and a hook on his right arm, that I am thinking of, you are in for a bad time, as whenever he meets me he mistakes me for an old Model The once had, and tries to turn my motor over with my left leg. Fortunately for you he sees a paper rarely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Uncle Smugly Says | 10/26/1937 | See Source »

...been given and continue to be given with the evident purpose of creating a war psychosis. It is scandalous that a former head of the British Government like Lloyd George, who in view of his age should advise seriousness and prudence, in a recent speech tossed to his audience hare-brained figures. . . ." Urgent notes went to Rome inviting the Fascist Government to discuss "immediate" withdrawal of foreign volunteers at a three-power conference. Behind this were veiled Franco-British threats of force, varying from opening the Catalan frontier for munitions and volunteers from France, to matching Italian volunteers with similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Symbolic Recall | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...because the producers have been concealing from him their mad shifts and hair-breadth escapes from destruction. But the dangers springing from his violent disposition make the real play all the more exciting, and the comedy-writer's license takes care of the rest. So we see Gordon Miller, hare-brained producer, catching hold of Leo Davis, rustic playwright, rifling his pockets, pawning his typewriter, putting him to bed on account of measles with tape-worm complications, starving him almost to death and then making him play dead besides, all because nobody has any money and it wouldn...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

Jean (Vincent Price) is the fourth-generation butler and valet to the Mariassy family. Old Count Mariassy (Lumsden Hare), perennially in-&-out Prime Minister of Hungary, cannot so much as button his waistcoat without Jean's help, boasts that in this admirably efficient and self-effacing young man he has the perfect servant. What is the Mariassy family's dismay to discover that Jean has been elected to Parliament as a Socialist deputy. The first shock over, Count Mariassy is rather tickled, but his daughter (Elissa Landi) is furious. Jean continues to serve as loyal valet, but things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Curtain Up | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

...foreign field seemed to present a more effective picture. It was one of the largest and best to appear at Forest Hills in recent years, including Japan's No. 1 Jiro Yamagishi, France's No. 2 Yvon Petra, England's No. 2 Charles Edgar Hare. England's No. 1 Bunny Austin was not there, but Budge had already given him a conclusive beating this year in the Davis Cup challenge round. The player who seemed to stand firmly in Donald Budge's path, however, was none of these. At Forest Hills for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champions at Forest Hills | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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