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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia Saturday night, M. Bernard Fox '38 and Miss Joan Tozzer of Boston won the national senior pair figure skating crown. Last year Fox took first in the national junior singles championships, besides winning the junior pair title with Miss Tozzer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fox Wins Skating Honor | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...complications concern a movie producer's (Adolph Menjou's) search for a plot with the human touch, which was possibly just what Mr. Goldwyn himself was seeking. Andrea Leeds, the dark horse who almost stole the show in "Stage Door," maintains her standard as "Miss Humanity." The technicolor is not glaring and therefore impressive. Undoubtedly the high spots of the movie are the ballet scenes, which are worth seeing even after the Chicago fire, the hurricane, and the locusts. And the title need arouse no apprehension...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/26/1938 | See Source »

Sponsored by the Young Conservatives, Miss Anderson will talk on "The Truth About Communist and Nationalist Spain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woman Journalist, Leftist Prisoner, to Speak About Spain | 2/23/1938 | See Source »

Claiming that Russian propaganda and funds engineered the "Leftist uprising" in Spain, Miss Anderson stated shortly after her release that when the Communists first came into power, "In three months, 22,000 civilians were put to death in Madrid alone, and 300,000 throughout Spain. During this same period, 20,000 churches were profaned, pillaged, or burned, while 15,800 priests, brothers, and nuns were martyred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Woman Journalist, Leftist Prisoner, to Speak About Spain | 2/23/1938 | See Source »

...second picture, "Hitting a New High," Lily Pons pours out profuse strains of unpremeditated coloratura, as well as the title song and "Let's Give Love Another Chance." Although the plot is moronic, the picture survives, thanks to Eric Blore and the radiant beauty of Miss Pons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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