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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While her mother lay ill in her girlhood home at Meriden, Conn., Soprano Rosa Melba Ponselle gave a concert at Hartford. In the midst of "Home, Sweet Home" she broke down, fled weeping from the stage. Said Robert Kellogg, impresario: "It was the overflow of her vast emotional reservoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Names make news | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

Even with Paul Green's sincere writing, Barthelmess' well-intentioned acting, Director Michael Curtiz' occasionally striking photography, Cabin in the Cotton fails to excite with its cinematically new problem, treatment and landscape. The sweet, empty face of honey-haired Bette Davis is notably effective in a villainess part. Excellent shot: the lynching party following bloodhounds along the top of a ridge screened by bare trees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

Facts are that since His Majesty's pneumonia George V has seemed to relish only two things, oysters and sweet puddings, of which he eats as much as his doctors let him. In Edward of Wales farsighted Chummy sees a future King-Emperor even less likely to appreciate his art. The favorite dinner of H. R. H. consists of cold meat & whiskey-soda-a menu sometimes expanded by cabbage or some other vegetable, always boiled. Unlike his fat, great-eating grandfather, and unlike his father, Edward of Wales detests sweets. But both George V and his son prefer whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Chummy | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...Torrance it looked as if he were sure to even matters for the 7 & 6 beating that Torrance gave him two years ago but Torrance got a 2 on the 30th and played beautiful golf to halve the match. Two other matches ? Burke v. Westland and Stout v. Sweet ser ? ended all-even after 36 holes. Rex Hartley had another chance to be bloody damnedmad after losing, 2 & 1, to Gus Moreland; so did his brother, who lost 3 & 2 to Maurice McCarthy Jr. Seaver pounded out prodigious drives to smother Fiddian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

Millions and millions of loudspeakers flood the U. S. with a mighty, surging bath of warm, sweet music. At the pump is Radio; the wellspring is Tin Pan Alley. Without the well, the pump is not much good. Both realize it but they do not love each other. Last week pump and well- the National Association of Broadcasters and the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-came to grips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Pump v. Well | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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