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...years ago Sculptor Carl Milles, recalling this familiar legend, won a competition with a sketch of a fountain to be placed in front of Stockholm's Concert Hall. Last week Carl Milles had finished the last of the plaster models of his Orpheus group. He and they were on their way to Stockholm where the models will be cast in dark green bronze. The fountain will be completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Music of Motion | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...altogether enjoyable and useful book, both as a reference and as a character sketch, which may be easily understood by any college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 10/16/1934 | See Source »

...English in its flavor, that may be explained by the fact that Doris Manners-Sutton, born in Australia, is of Irish-Breton parentage. A scrawled statement of her own, reluctantly given, contains all her publishers have been able to discover about her. It runs: "Manners-Sutton, Doris. Biographical sketch. . . . Wandered about the world. Always interested in the occult. Has 'the sight.' Spent a year collecting . . . information for Black God. Nearly eaten by cannibals. Believes sincerely in magic and the power of created thought. Has written all her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black & White | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

...rule? Would it still bear its present name?" In Manhattan, Cartoonist Will Johnstone of the World Telegram made a picture of his tax payer playing golf dressed in a barrel, saying "Nobody objects to my shorts." In the New York Daily News, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor drew a sketch called "A Thousand Welcomes," showing a newspaper artist bored with such topics as the Drought, Hitler and the Far East, examining with approval the figure of a female golfer wearing shorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shorts: Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

...Tell by Mrs. Arnold Rothstein (Fox) has the distinction of the longest title out of Hollywood this year. It purports to be a biographical sketch of Arnold Rothstein, a notorious gambler whose murder, in Manhattan's Park Central Hotel in 1928, remains unsolved to this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Where Sinners Meet (RKO). | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

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