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...first show he has produced and directed. It is also the U. S. theatrical premiére of Author E. M. Delafield (Elizabeth M. Dashwood), a capable, Grade B English literary lady (Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady in America), Both débuts scored tranquil, unostentatious successes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...being that of captain & cook. Molly is cooking for Jotham Klore, a profane, hard-drinking bully boy who seldom passes a lock without a fight. A quarrel with Jotham and a sudden turn of good luck for Dan sends Molly into the kitchen of Dan's Sarsey Sal. A tranquil panorama by Currier & Ives, The Farmer Takes a Wife becomes emotionally articulate only when Molly is trying to infect her bumpkin beau with her passion for The Big Ditch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 12, 1934 | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

...ambitions for the man she loves. One sister (Estelle Wynwood) foregoes an unseemly dalliance, returns to the old romance that time has almost staled. The other sister (Viola Roache) finds it easier to accept the un eventful round of housewifely existence In the end Dame Sybil prefers her own tranquil solitude to another marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...value. This has meant idle hands, still machines, ships tied to their docks, despairing farm household and hungry industrial families. . . . You and I know that the world does not stand still; that trade movements and relations once interrupted can with the utmost difficulty be restored; that even in tranquil and prosperous times there is a constant shifting of trade channels. . . . Every nation must at all times be in a position quickly to adjust its taxes and tariffs to meet sudden changes and avoid severe fluctuations in both its exports and its imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: First Move | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

Occupants of rooms surrounding Dunster House courtyard were startled last night about 9 o'clock when a burning sofa hurtled from a fourth floor window in F entry onto the pavement beneath. For fifteen minutes its flames flared up from the court casting an unholy glare over the usually tranquil House and illuminating the efforts of the brave Cambridge fire ladies in their struggle against the fiercest of the elements...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flaming Sofa Hurled From Window in Dunster House | 2/7/1934 | See Source »

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