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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publisher Black. Baltimore's Publisher Van Lear Black was at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia last week, as urbane as ever, despite dismal rains. His two pilots and mechanic were hospitalized with influenza. The party flew south down Africa to Cape Town, is now working its way north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights of the Week: Mar. 25, 1929 | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...Come to South Africa!" the Canadian Pacific Line urges. "See Cape Town, the diamond mines at Johannesburg, Kaffir villages, wild animals in their haunts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Tree Top Tourists | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...screen presentation "The Crash" concerns the romance of a girl from a burlesque show and the boss of a wrecking crew. Their troubles and quarrels in a small town are extended to the utmost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

Hero Moseley. The "Big River" or Rio Grande is part of the frontier between the U. S. and Mexico. Facing each other on opposite banks stand twin cities. El Paso and Juarez?queer twins. El Paso is a clean, Babbitt city, with little skyscrapers; but dirty Juarez is a town of low adobe structures where drink and vicious company are easily found. In Juarez last week General George Van Horn Moseley, U. S. A., acquitted himself right well as a Hero of Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Again, Mexitl | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Grand Opera Company (TIME, Dec. 31). Richard Dix also takes his singing seriously. And last week it was pressagented that Charles Ray, 38, is cultivating his high tenor voice for a career. According to one Alfredo Martino, a Manhattan teacher. Cinemactor Ray takes two lessons a day when in town. At present he is touring with a vaudeville act in which he sings and plays the piano. It is a comedy act but now the famed Ray grin is just a mask for a great and earnest purpose. He practices for opera in his dressing room with a portable, collapsible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rumor Confirmed | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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