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...should not speak this way of my elders, and I remember how you got Dad to cut my allowance in half when well, there is no need of mentioning that incident, but I think you will agree on Uncle Harry, for you always said he was a little queer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/1/1934 | See Source »

...President Conant to make Harvard a real "national university," as Oxford may be called in England. This will be an additional recommendation for Boston and Cambridge--for Harvard is now quite as much a Boston institution as it is a Cambridge institution. But to Bostonians it seems, a queer idea that during the experimental period of the new fellowships all the holders must come from the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Why should New England be shut out, even for a time, from this opportunity? Or Massachusetts at the least? And why Minnesota rather than Iowa? Iowa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/27/1934 | See Source »

...Queer People (by John Floyd; Galen Bogue, producer) has a queer history. Four years ago, Carroll and Garrett Graham, brothers who had worked on Los Angeles newspapers and in Hollywood studios, wrote the book from which the play was adapted. As a novel, Queer People seemed to Will Hays so raw that he forbade Producer Howard Hughes to turn it into cinema. The publicity which the incident gave the book helped Galen Bogue last week to bill Hal Skelly "in the lovable and immortal role of 'Whitey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 26, 1934 | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...John Floyd had tried less arduously to include all the queer people in the Graham book and treated them as incidental to his main theme, his play might have made more sense. As it is, Whitey seems less than an immortal hero but Hal Skelly's teetering performance gives the play what vitality it has. Its fundamental defect is that libeling Hollywood has long since ceased to be sufficient grounds for drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 26, 1934 | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

...President still retains some grip on the State was seen when he appointed Lieut.-General Baron von Fritsch, an army officer of the old school, to be Commander-in-Chief of the Reichswehr, thus spiking rumors that the German Army would be turned over to that arrant Nazi queer, Captain Ernst Roehm, Generalissimo of Storm Troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Göring Out? | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

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