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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...returned. The 80-year-old Pontiff took to his bed. Once more, rumors of a serious relapse went out, the wildest being that papal Dr. Aminta Milani was telling prelates: "I would not be surprised any morning to hear the bells of St. Peter's toll out the sad news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope's University -- | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...policemen, politicians and College biddies are all that undergraduates can think of when they hear a reference to Ireland, they have some excuse for their ignorance. For it is a sad fact that Harvard offers no broad, general course dealing directly with either the history or letters of Erin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT DO THEY KNOW OF ERIN? | 11/13/1937 | See Source »

...very simple-minded, but none the less effective what with its thick coat of humor and its exuberant heroic pair, who find life "so beautiful and so sad...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/12/1937 | See Source »

...statue on which Sculptor Edmondson was working last week was entitled Sad Girl Sitting Alone. This and other Edmondson mirkels are less appreciated by Nashville's Negro colony than by Manhattan's art colony. Few have been sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mirkels | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...play brings a successful young actress (Gloria Dickson) under the vampirish influence of a fading harridan of the theatre (Josephine Victor). How the aging harpy enslaves the girl, breaks up her engagement, holds her captive even after death, is the rest of the sad story. Redhaired, ingratiating Theodore Newton (Dead End), appeared as the luckless suitor, tries in vain to better matters with dignified restraint. Gloria Dickson, the Pocatello, Idaho girl who stepped from the Federal Theatre into Hollywood fame (They Won't Forget), endowed the young actress with dazzling blondness and a fresh, strong prairie accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 25, 1937 | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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