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...young lad, Tom Keene, and his pretty wife, Karen Morley, finding themselves in dire economic straits, take advantage of an opportunity to go "back to the farm." Gathering about them a group of unemployed families, of the kind that is so pitifully a victim of the world chaos today, the pair set up a simplified self-subsisting community. It is strange that, in an attempt to portray the inevitable nobility of this American stock of which we are so proud, the producers saw fit to launch their actors on a communistic experiment of the most extreme kind. Getting away from...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/23/1934 | See Source »

...Kuziora and Moseley going to play?" Only a few days ago TIME OUT had the temerity to take Holy Cross at its word and say that Kuziora was definitely out of the game. But Io and behold, since that time some enterprising scribe stated that the Erie, Pa. lad was ready to go. TIME OUT was taken to task for his rashness but he can only say that when a man is reported with a separated collar bone, the chances of his playing football are no stronger than a toothpick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/20/1934 | See Source »

During my three years as Farmette with the Johnsons, I never once heard her refuse anything for the lad for his theatre, however fantastic or expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: General in Control | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...they are comparable because his prizes were diminished by Depression. If Cavalcade wins the Saratoga Cup, he will be well on his way to equalling Man o' War's record. If he also wins?as horsemen last week considered him likely to do?a proposed international race against Windsor Lad, winner of the English Derby, and Admiral Drake, winner of the Grand Prix, he may well join Man o' War as the model for great U. S. racehorses of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Plain Aristocrat | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...Florey was the son of a publican in a Cornish raining town that had fallen on evil days. A bright lad, Tom dreamed of a brighter future than tending bar, and his schoolmasters wanted him to try for a scholarship at Oxford. When Publican Florey put his foot down on such nonsense Tom moped at home, revolved methods of escape. When the offer of a post as tutor in a German family opened the door, Tom was out like a flash. He got along famously with his employer, a distinguished Nobel Prizewinning author and his queer menage, fell in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Shanks | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

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