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...trick cane equipped with a rubber-tube to blow smoke through, ogling all pretty girls through spectacles painted on his face, ranging rapidly about the stage at a half-crouch. All this Mr. Clark has done many times before with success. Bad press notices and the lack of any outstand ing talent other than Clark & McCullough put Here Goes the Bride into the past tense. But you will still hear dance bands playing some of the show's earful music : "Hello, My Lover, Goodbye," "Music in My Fingers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...that Wing-Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith (California-to-Australia) is the world's No. 1 long-distance flyer; that he has never received full fame for his exploits. "To give Smith his rightful place in history," Liberty magazine last week published a collection of testimonials, solicited from 26 outstanding airmen by Aviation Writer Richard Carroll. Under the heading "They Call Him Daddy." appeared the pictures and comments of Atcherly, Byrd, Chamberlin, Cobham, Doolittle, Hawks, Rickenbacker, von Gronau, many another crack flyer-all lifting peans of superlative praise for Kingsford-Smith. Some, like "Al" Williams, called him the "outstand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Daddy | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...Blasco Ibaņez, none the poorer, absconded from Buenos Aires, and now no more dares show his face there than in Mexico. In both places, far from 'founding schools and colleges,' he has left outstand ing a long and painful score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Decadent? | 10/3/1927 | See Source »

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