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At the Petit Cemetiere at Verdun, on the eve of Armistice Day, 1934, a crowd of tourists is gathered. As they drift away, one of their number remains. Darkness falls about him. In the increasing gloom a great voice is heard, promising that the 20-year-old prayers of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

The House Beautiful is a new offering by Channing Pollock, the Upton Sinclair of the stage. Incorrigibly didactic, Mr. Pollock is not only a playwright, but a poet and parson as well. Like his other plays (The Fool, The Enemy, Mr. Money-penny), The House Beautiful is packed with homilies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

To thread together these and kindred quaint inventions the picture tells the story of a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill). He falls in love with her, encouraging her to believe he is a millionaire. His difficulties in getting funds to maintain this reputation in her unseeing eyes supply most of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

Sitting in his convalescent home at Asheville, N. C., ailing Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. fiddles familiarly with the switches of a radio receiver. As he fiddled one day this week a grin of satisfaction crossed his face. He had heard a code message from the Los Angeles headquarters of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Hams' Progress | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

In darkness "black as the shirts of the pilots," General Italo Balbo's squadron of twelve great Savoia-Marchetti seaplanes roared along the water off Bolama, west coast of Africa, to take-off for Brazil (TIME, Jan. 5). The first group of three black-winged ships, led by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Fast Ford Freight | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

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