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Broun, untidy and elephantine, acts as master of ceremonies. He contributes a philosophical sketch, "Death Says It Isn't So," which critics said belongs in no revue. He takes part in flippant blackouts-in one he has to wriggle his giant form under a bed. He sings. In his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Aug. 3, 1931 | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

"Cheer for Briand but Vote for Doumer." The Salle du Congrés, where Chamber and Senate met last week as the National Assembly, is shaped like an oblong box, the rostrum being at the centre of one of the longer sides. Behind the rostrum is a stately backdrop for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Briand Defeated, Doumer Elected | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

A little, untidy, white-cassocked priest bustled frantically about a farmhouse in Connecticut. The dream?a high-church Episcopal school to educate boys of modest means?for which he had abandoned ordinary parish work, had seemed wholly accomplished yesterday; now everything appeared to have gone wrong. True, he had this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Homer at Harvard | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

Sylvia Townsend Warner is a competent novelist, so when she turns her hand to verse you expect some salty characterization. She does not fail you. Old Rebecca Random, heroine of these heroic couplets, lived in a picturesque, tumbledown cottage in the English village of Love Green. The cottage attracted tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Story Poems | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Members of the Fordham University football team last week eyed with disgust Rameses IV, a large untidy ram. Three weeks ago Mascot Rameses III, who had brought victory to the team for two seasons, was worried to death by mongrel dogs. Immediately a delegation was sent to a New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Unlucky Ram | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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