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A gentle air of insanity continued last week to pervade reports of the U. S. mayors' junket to France as guests of that country. On a four-day frolic about Normandy they received careful instructions in French manners and etiquette preparatory to their Paris reception. Always in the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Junketing Mayors | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Pierre Belcroix (Earle Larimore), a journeyman musician, and his wife Romaine (Edna Best) are visited by an eminent amorist and violinist, Marcel Blanc (Mr. Rathbone). In no time at all the ancient triangle situation develops. As the curtain falls on Act I there is a charming scene in the virtuoso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 27, 1931 | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

While asserting that training was an important item in preparing for a fight, the ex-sailor said he knew many fighters who would smoke two packages of cigarettes in the dressing-room before a match and not suffer from short-winded-ness. Sharkey's idea of having a good time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sharkey Advises Young Boxers to Develop Accuracy With Left Hand as Asset in Fighting--Godfrey Bout Was Best of Career | 12/2/1930 | See Source »

Concluded Privy Seal Jim: "I have found no magic remedy for unemployment"-and it was all too evident that he had not. On the other hand neither the Liberals nor the Conservatives wanted to bring down the Labor Government on the unemployment issue last week, so amid much grumbling the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Parliament Squabbles | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

The play is thoroughly preposterous, strewn with woe and valor and long-winded speeches about each. It reaches its one dramatic, now highly amusing, climax when a near-hero is tied to the railroad tracks, to be rescued when the heroine smashes her way out of her freight-house prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 15, 1929 | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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