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...pavilion but the stage is enclosed on three sides, thus preserving the details which in much outdoor music are so sadly smudged. People may come informally dressed, smoke through the performances, have soda-water between the acts. And they come in crowds- in limousines, by train, or on the trolley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ravinia | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

Wilkins' plan is to equip the submarine with an ice drill, capable of piercing 50 ft. of ice from beneath, to enable him to stop the craft under the polar ice pack, take on fresh air, recharge batteries, make observations. A trolley riding on the under side of the ice would indicate the position of the boat. A pressure lock would enable men in diving suits to leave and re-enter the submerged ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Polar Dive? | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

Police and a squad of Marines battled a mob last week on Hollywood Boulevard. Overhead a battle squadron of airplanes looped and scattered flare bombs. Milling, shouting, jeering, cheering thousands surged along the roped and guarded sidewalk. They came by motor and trolley from miles around, inflamed with the lust to gape. They came to see the famed females of the movies in what is not inaccurately described on nights like this as the flesh. Squired by famed movie males these females dress in their sheerest best to attend the world premiere of a motion picture. Normally at a Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hell's Angels | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...even hinted that, if given control, he might go so far as to order the members of the House to shave. No more would Benton Harbor street car conductors be confused with the motormen by reason of their identical beards (the House of David owns Benton Harbor's trolley lines). No more would the House's famed, crack baseball nine achieve added reputation and profit in its journeys throughout the U. S. from the novelty of long-bearded gentlemen scrambling for flies, sliding for bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: House Divided | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, police found Henry Mulholland drunk and singing in the cab of a derailed trolley car which he had stolen, in which he had been driving himself about the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Progress | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

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