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...Stagers present the first act of J. M. Barrie's famous unfinished mystery, "Shall We Join the Ladies?". Thirteen men and women are seated around a dinner table, thoroughly happy. Their genial host arises to respond to a toast, and before he sits again twelve people are through ly miserable, each suspected of the murder of the host's brother. For some fifteen minutes the finger of suspicion points alternately to each of the guests. The tenseness of the situation reaches a maximum; suddenly a scream is heard, the butler staggers in, ghastly pale, and the curtain falls. The audience...

Author: By T. B. Oc., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/16/1933 | See Source »

Burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, eight-time U. S. woman's tennis champion, revealed that she and her husband, Broker Franklin I. Mallory, are now "poor," that she will soon open a sports shop for women in Manhattan. For six weeks late ly Mrs. Mallory had a job as saleswoman in Saks Fifth Avenue, swank department store. "Well, they fired me. I guess I wasn't so much a drawing card as they hoped I'd be ... you're soon forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 25, 1932 | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

Before dawn General Moreno. Col. Bravo and the rest of the Army officers had called upon their good friend Don Carlos Davila to assume the Presidency of a "purely civilian junta" which he prompt ly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Irish Bull | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...most important being a gambler and the man whom he has made his valet in lieu of pressing for payment of gaming losses. After three acts of this entertainment, one concludes that hokum is the same the whole world over. Sample lines given to the female character named Ly, who intrudes into the gambler's flat: "They called me the tiger cat?and they had good reason for it. ... So he's the master and you're the valet, eh? Life's queer sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...There was a time so I am told He ran away with Grandpa Cole, He smashed the buggy on the pole, But that was long ago. Now the tired old horse is happy in his way, For he dreams he still can hear his master say, "Turn tid-di-ly um bum, Giddap!" Composer Woodin has six grandchildren for whom he has built a playroom on the top floor of his Manhattan penthouse. He tries out his children's songs on them, finds them frank critics. Concerning his grown-up music and its performance, Composer Woodin is modest, hopes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Turn Tiddily Tycoon | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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