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Fortnight ago Czech Playwright Karel Capek's Power and Glory was produced in London with Vienna-born Oscar Homolka in the two leading roles. On opening night most of the women in a hushed audience wore black, aware that Homolka would come straight to the theatre from the inquest following his young wife's death from an infection...
...WITH THE NEWTS-Karel Capek, translated by M. & R. Weatherall -Putnam...
...times thereafter, made himself indisputably the greatest player of the times, turned pro fessional in 1931. With Ellsworth Vines at home in California, Tilden last week became a U. S. Champion for the tenth time in his career, by beating tireless, brown-faced Karel Kozeluh, 0-6, 6-1. 6-4, 0-6, 6-4 in the final of the ninth National Professional Championship played in the presence of a handful of spectators on clay courts, at Flatbush...
Members of the Dramatic Club are finding themselves in strange but ideal surroundings. For the second successive evening, they play tonight the male roles in the Wellesley Barnswallows' fall presentation, "R.U.R.," by Karel Capek...
...became an impresario of professional tennis in 1928 when he imported Czechoslovakian Karel Kozeluh for an exhibition tour. In 1931 he recruited Francis T. Hunter after that wealthy New Yorker had dropped some $3,000,000 in the stockmarket. That year Tilden also turned professional. Last year in partnership with Tilden Mr. O'Brien amply demonstrated that a big tennis player can cash in handsomely on his talents. Net of last year's operations was $144,000. Vines got a flat 50% of that. This year he is going to get only 12½% of the gross, expected...