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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then Tibbett has behaved as modestly as any good Alger hero. He has a new wife, the former Mrs. Jennie Marston Burgard,-a home in Hollywood's fashionable Beverly Hills, a Lincoln car which he drives like mad. But Tibbett has cultivated no lofty conceits, no temperamental whimsies. He refused the private dining room which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him in Hollywood. He still thinks, and says, that singing is "just about the best fun that the human animal can have." He will still burst into song on the street or in restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: O'Neill into Opera | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...attract the ex-Kaiser's attention, to use the dagger on watchdogs. Hustled back to Germany, he was identified as one Heinrich Fuecker, onetime inmate of both prison and asylum. Wilhelm Hohenzollern shrugged off the incident: "It's nothing. The fellow is probably mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 26, 1932 | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

Married. Charles ("Mad Hatter") Butterworth, film & stage comedian (Sweet Adeline, Flying Colors); and Ethel Kenyon Sutherland, actress; in Harrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 26, 1932 | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...mania or nervous excitement. The dog may jump in the air, snap at invisible objects. A peculiar, unmistakeable howling begins, not so fast and frequent as the yapping and whining of running fits. The dog is still unlikely to bite persons it knows but will soon begin to "run mad." first at any dog it sees, later in a set course (unlike the aimless circling of running fits), snapping silently at anything in its path. Some mad dogs snap so hard they break their teeth and jaws. The final stage is paralysis, coma, death. The normal course of rabies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1932 | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

Violet Kemble Cooper bustles through the delicate, amusing fabric of the piece with great success. The Mad Hopes warrants a visit if only to hear her gravely remark over a telephone: "Shakespeare? -yes-yes-very talented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1932 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

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