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...following have been elected to the Dramatic Club for their work in the fall play, "Jonah and the Whale," it was announced last nigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Initiates 19 Members for "Jonah" Work | 1/13/1937 | See Source »

...back to the U. S. A. where marriage is a mockery, so it has fallen to my lot as a patriot to kill you. This is a solemn warning that I shall do so." In numerous other notes polysyllabic English writers informed Mrs. Simpson that the date draws nigh when she will indubitably perish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Unprivate Lives (Cont'd) | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...Grieg's Olaf Tryggvason. Heated, enthusiastic, she swung next into a Schumann symphony, had to wipe her perspiring brow after the first movement. She had picked up enough energy in her European trip to satisfy everybody and to make Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson find the orchestra "well nigh unrecognizable, so firmly has Ebba Sundstrom increased her grasp over her players since last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swedish Night | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...possible extension of such detection to all human diseases set Professor Burr's imagination afire, impelled him to crow last week: "The technique should be a new and powerful weapon for the analysis of fundamental biological activity. . . . It seems well nigh unlimited in its application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Electric Disease Detector | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...Give My Life" is pure melodrama at the end of which there should not be a dry eye in the audience. Tom Brown and Francis Drake are two love-birds who work in a gangsters' nigh-club. Comes a reform governor who cracks down on the underworld, and in self-defense the gangster suddenly reveals that Tom is his son, and that Tom's mother, believing him dead, is now the wife of the governor. Father and son square off, and Tom shoots down the dirty dog. Tom allows himself to be led to the gallows, refusing to tell...

Author: By M. O. P., | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/7/1936 | See Source »

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