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Oriental self-sacrifice played to the tune of splitting shells and roaring torpedoes, is the essence of "Thunder in the East", a picture based on Claude Farere's "The Battle" and set in the Russo-Japanese War. Merle Oberon achieves a slightly more Levantine slant to her eyebrows than Charles...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/16/1936 | See Source »

In Philadelphia last week Digger Bache and Director Ephraim A. Speiser of the American School of Oriental Research announced the discovery, between Levels Eleven and Twelve, of a temple-fortress built 3,000 years before the earliest mention of such structures in the Old Testament, and which they called "unique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

These and other resounding words were inscribed in cuneiform characters on seven stone tablets, each two feet square, some 2,420 years ago. Lately diggers of University of Chicago's rich Oriental Institute unearthed them at Persepolis, not in the palace but in the ruins of an army garrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

However true any of this was, it was by no means out of line with the ambiguous and profitable fortunes of Mr. Rickett. Keeping his wife and three children immured in a Welsh castle at Amroth. he gives stag parties for the great at his farm at East Garston in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Again, Rickett | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

Because the high ceilings permitted him to display his Oriental tapestries and African trophies to best advantage, 20 years ago bearded, rotund Representative George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts took a lifetime lease on an apartment in Washington's Arlington Hotel. Six months ago, when New Dealer Rexford Guy Tugwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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