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Tenor Beniamino Gigli had not decided last week whether to accept a $7,000-a-week offer for 20 weeks from Paramount-Publix, the cinema chain for which oldtime Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzina has been singing this season. But he was ready with the statement he promised his public in connection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cinema Music | 5/16/1932 | See Source »

The grimness of the play does not lie in a series of murders as is so often the case but in the presence of a single character, Bobble Spence, a victim of poison gas who can neither speak nor move sufficiently to write. He it is who in the end...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/21/1932 | See Source »

¶ The "Stop Roosevelt" movement last week focused on Massachusetts (36 votes). Fortnight ago Mr. Smith, despite his earlier statement that he would not contest for another nomination, allowed his name to go in for the primary. April 26. Boston's Mayor Curley, hot for Roosevelt, began hectoring the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Incantations | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

Gridley Barrows '34 threw Lindberg of Tufts in one of the best bouts of the meet, getting revenge for a defeat suffered at the hands of his rival last year. Harold Frankel '34 battled through two overtime periods to a draw with Gillespie, Tufts man who conquered the Harvard grappler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAPPLERS DROP ONLY TWO MATCHES TO TUFTS | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

* Not all Oklahoma favors a Murray candidacy. This month the Tulsa World said of its Governor: "He has a tricky mind and a cunning appeal. Like a jackass braying into an empty rain barrel, he mistakes the sound and fury for wisdom and profundity. He encourages and agitates unrest and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Solos & Ducts | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

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