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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howard reads his lines with extreme beauty, sympathy, and understanding. Never once is there a suggestion of ranting; indeed at times, in the most intense scenes, there appears almost an underemphasis, but this is more due to Mr. Howard's determination to create an original Hamlet than from any lack of power. He conveys the effect of almost an unwillingness to believe the accusations of the Ghost at first, and later skillfully avoids the perennial charge of procrastination by the calm, detached manner in which he builds the case against Claudius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/20/1936 | See Source »

...names on slips of paper, stuffed them in a pill box and drew them out, one by one, for the order of recitation. Few could remember much more. Reflected Williams' President Tyler Dennett last week: "In stitutions have many of the attributes of persons, but one quality they lack - mem ory. A college has life far beyond the limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hopkins Centenary | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Meantime, a great lack of information obtained as to whether and when the papal Secretary of State would see any or all of the other U. S. Church princes, the Cardinals of Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pulse Taker | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Eric Randolph Wilson, 51, of Los Angeles was arrested in Seattle last spring on charges of conspiring to perform abortions. Lack of evidence gained Dr. Wilson an acquittal. His associate, a skillful amateur named Paul de Gaston, was fined $100 & costs for practicing medicine without a license. Notwithstanding the insignificant disposition of these cases, they brought to light enough evidence to expose an amazingly widespread and efficient chain of Pacific Coast abortaria extending from Seattle to San Diego, to cause California to indict five doctors, a businessman, eight lesser associates. Last week the 14 were on trial in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortoria | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Roosevelt Raceway was no puzzle to Europe's aristocratic race drivers, they were a vexing riddle to Roosevelt Race way. Accustomed to building up bogus socialites, the Raceway's energetic press agents betrayed their lack of practice in dealing with real ones by describing Francis Richard Henry Penn Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, onetime Member of Parliament and Aide-de-camp to the late George V, with redundant emphasis, as "Lord" Earl Howe. Inheritor of a fabulous for tune for which a legal dispute that is still going on was sufficiently sensational a century ago to inspire Charles Dickens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Revival Race | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

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