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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Revived, Captain Onslow (Warner Baxter) is in a peculiar position. He is affianced to a blonde Baroness Von Sturm (Miriam Jordan) but he decides that it would be more generous to break the engagement so that she will fall in love with his rival (John Boles). Highly satisfied with his experience of death, he is able to reassure an old lady that her departed son is well and happy, a small girl that her little brother has elephants to play with. He attends an important conference in time to cast the vote that defeats a treaty which would have injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...Hours to Live (Fox). The hero of this picture is cinema's most extraordinary corpse, Captain Paul Onslow, the head diplomat of a country called Sylvaria, who has been strangled by his political opponents. One of those loose-lipped scientists who exist only in countries like Sylvaria takes a quick look at Captain Onslow's cadaver and says that he can revivify it, for six hours. He does so with a display of electricity and a large glass barrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 31, 1932 | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...Jacksonville, N. C., a depositor lugged 120 Ib. of cash to the Bank of Onslow. Cashier James Collins spent two days counting $800 in coins smaller than 25¢ pieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Clerk | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...states. The largest is Kruger National Park, five million acres stretching from Johannesburg east to Portuguese East Africa. The building of roads in British territory since the Boer War has made hunting from the back seat of an automobile too easy, has made it imperative that the Earl of Onslow, president of England's Society for Preserving the Fauna of the Empire set aside territories where hunters may not shoot. Belgium's largest reservation is Albert Park in the Congo, established through efforts of the late Carl Akeley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Slaughter | 9/1/1930 | See Source »

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