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...start things moving, and a fire with Lee Tracy's little boy supposedly locked in a box within the flaming tents. Another explanation of the mediocrity of the picture may be that the theatre believes that a dull setting best sets off a jewel, that their vaudeville may better shine beside a poor film. However that may be, the vaudeville is entertaining and the screen fare distinctly second rate...

Author: By R. O. B., | Title: AT RKO KEITH'S | 2/5/1935 | See Source »

...Among his best plates : a naked toothsome young wife kissing her lover through the bars of a window while her fat husband snoozes with his back turned; two bewildered young Basques showing their humble bundles, their passports at a frontier railroad station; a fat Madrid dandy getting a shoe shine at a café; a chunky street acrobat holding a whale of a woman high in the air with one hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Luis Hoosegowed | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

...manufacturer named John David Brock. He learned to fly in 1922, has owned a plane ever since. In the autumn of 1929 he observed in his logbook that he had missed only eleven days' flying that year. For fun, he decided to try flying every day. In rain, shine, snow and fog, he went up daily for a 15-minute spin. Even when sub-zero weather grounded the airmail Dr. Brock took off. In dead of winter snowplows cleared runways for him. When he came down ice was chopped from his wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Year No. 5 | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...PLAIN MAN'S WARNING (non-copy right) (2). Suppose you had a nation entirely under your personal dominion: a nation for whose energy and enterprise you must find an outlet outside its borders; a nation in whose eyes you aim to shine as a hero far more brightly than Clive in our eyes. And suppose you were a "madman" like Clive, but aiming at an infinitely greater prize- the British Empire- how would you set about it? PLAIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Agonies | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

...meet him and they wept unashamedly in their emotion. Three things make the Realmleader adorable to the German woman. First, his sublime kindness. Second, his intense patriotism. Third, his standard of truthfulness and sincerity. Ach, you should see his eyes! You should look into them. Truth and sincerity shine in those eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Adorable | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

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