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...Chucky Moskowitz and Bella Englestein hitchhiked to Fort Smith for a week-end recently. Bella was in need of new glasses so she and Chucky made a lark of this necessity. They had a fine trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: By Talihina Highway | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...LARK ASCENDING?Mazo de la Roche?Little, Brown ($2.50). Small-town bohemians junketing abroad?a far cry from the W'hiteoak clan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proust | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

Commented the superpatriotic Chicago Tribune: "They will be a disturbance wherever they go if not a potential danger. . . . The bummers were said to be in good humor, but there was the nucleus of a destructive mob. ... If this is a lark, what's a riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Bummers | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...page of "news flashes," thus: "Production on Noah's Lark . . . was halted yesterday when it was discovered that Paula Pushova, the star, couldn't say Noah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Hullabaloo | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...faith in mankind. It is a play, or rather the rough draft of a play, about four sets of British folk in a small Paris hotel. In one room are three men and a 1 boy come to Paris-Berris to them, as they are actually British-for a lark. In another are two lovers, enjoying the prelude to what promises to be a grand passion. A porky gentleman and his porky wife argue good-naturedly in still another. The last group consists of a dying novelist, his wife and two charming children. At the close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

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