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¶Last week the National Symphony Orchestra opened its Washington season with a concert at Constitution Hall. Conducting was jolly Hans Kindler, famed

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

On the stage, Helen Hayes's greatest success was Coquette. The run of that play was terminated by a celebrated act of God?the birth of Helen Hayes's daughter?over which there was an Actors Equity suit. Her husband. Playwright Charles MacArthur (see The Unholy Garden) worked up the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Mutiny among Great Britain's jolly tars was due, Lady Astor thought, to "their sense of fair play. . . . The facts are these: They heard naval pay was to be cut. They looked into the cuts, and these seemed unfair to them."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hard-Boiled Sea Lords | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

It was the port watch's afternoon for shore leave. Jolly-boats went in to the little town of Invergordon where the Navy has a large recreation hut and British brewers have a number of very large pubs. Soon officers in their wardrooms on the ship heard disquieting news. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sailors & Fairy Belles | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

This time Mr. Cohan has chosen to act the role of a mature man-of-the-world who has been keeping a girl (Lee Patrick) for several years. Suddenly Miss Patrick takes up with a young litterateur (Clifford Jones) who infects her with a desire to write, and with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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