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Lynne Overman takes the part of a dissolute but good-hearted Englishman, whose debts are paid by his uncle with the understanding that he is to marry Roxy Hartley (Irene Purcell), an eligible English girl. Mr. Overman accepts the bargain on one condition: if he can seduce Miss Purcell in one month, he is released from his obligation to his uncle. Whereupon, incognito, he engages himself as gigolo to Miss Purcell. But her bold and modern ways conceal inward purity. On the last day of the month they take an airplane ride over San Sebastian. During the ride Mr. Overman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Play In Manhattan: Aug. 18, 1930 | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...shoulders of hundreds of young men and women, undergraduates of the University of Washington. They were vigorously and visibly protesting against the enforced resignation of President Henry Suzzallo, who, the young men and women told each other, was being dismissed without a hearing from Washington by Governor Roland H. Hartley (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). As Wartime wage umpire of the National Labor Board, President Suzzallo had sponsored the eight-hour day for lumbermen, a policy irksome to timber-owning Governor Hartley. Technical cause for the rift was a disagreement about educational policy, but President Suzzallo left Washington in a torchlit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Elevation of Suzzallo | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Then follows the courtroom scene in which "Sandy" Tully (Jack Hartley), good friend of the deceased, is being tried for Stromberg's murder on very thin evidence indeed. Just as a witness is about to tell all he knows, a fusillade rings out from an upper box of the theatre, thus somehow terminating the legal proceedings. Last act is a flashback to Room No. 349, a scene in which Mr. Stromberg is portrayed as being wise, powerful, philanthropic, tender. His short temper, his desire to "quit the racket" and marry Babette are given as reasons for the quarrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 5, 1930 | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

London, Eng., Feb. 17--The death of C. H. Moore '90, emeritus Professor of Art at Harvard University was learned today. Professor Moore was in his ninetieth year and had been residing for some time at Hartley Wintney, Hampshire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER PROFESSOR OF ART AT HARVARD DIES IN LONDON | 2/19/1930 | See Source »

Divorced. Norman Rockwell, illustrator (Saturday Evening Post covers); by Mrs. Irene O'Connor Rockwell; at Reno. Grounds: mental cruelty and neglect. Straightway she married one Francis Hartley. Jr., chemist, of Belmont, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 27, 1930 | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

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