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...years ago Karel Kozeluh, Czechoslovakian professional, and blond, laconic Vincent Richards played in the finals of the national professional tennis singles championship and Richards won. Last year they played again and Kozeluh won. The finals for the championship is the most important of their yearly matches, but they play often. On dirt courts in vacant lots in Manhattan and its suburbs, in the presence of the kind of people who do not usually attend tennis matches, Kozeluh and Richards play again and again for $1 and $2 admissions. Sometimes one wins, sometimes the other, but it is always a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kozeluh v. Richards | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

...William Tatem Tilden II: a match with Professional Karel Kozeluh, called by some critics "world's greatest tennis player." at Beaulieu, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Apr. 28, 1930 | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

...course there are some tennis enthusiasts who insist that the professional players of today are not on the same level with the cream of the amateur racquet-wielders. They will probably receive a severe jolt when they watch Vincent Richards and Karel Kozelub perform at Germantown next fall, but even if they are correct the inevitable result of putting the two branches of the sport on an equal footing will be an equalizing one. The good results of open tournaments may not all be apparent from the very start; but they will inevitably come out to the everlasting benefit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/18/1930 | See Source »

...fact that human beings are fundamentally alike the world over needs constant reminders. The purely relative word "foreigner" ceases to have a definite meaning when we read the Russian stories of Chekhov, the English stories of Katherine Mansfield, the Czech stories of Karel Capek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money & Other Troubles | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Author. Karel Capek, 40, dark, slender, wiry, hesitating in manner but incisive of speech, is chiefly known in the U. S. as a playwright (The World We Live In written in collaboration with his brother Josef). He has written other plays (R. U. R., The Robber, The Makropoulos Affair), novels (Krakatit, The Absolute at Large). In Prague, his home town, he is known as a student of philosophy, principally American (William James, John Dewey), play manager and producer. Onetime Art Director of the National Art Theatre of Prague, he is now manager of the Vinohradsky Art Theatre, where he produces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Money & Other Troubles | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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