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The cause of peace has taken a great many hard rights to the chin recently, but the cruelest swipe of all was to have Arthur Henderson, president of the world Disarmament Conference, lose faith in the good will of the nations assembled. For years Uncle Arthur has maintained that universal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 11/15/1933 | See Source »

John Businessman last week enjoyed reading his second big batch of third-quarter earnings reports, nearly all of them pleasing, and again had the headache of seeing most important indices of business declining. Freight car loadings fell off 13,800 cars to only 3.1% more than the same week in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Indices v. Earnings | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

It is a pleasure to report that Alice Brady has finally learned that overacting may become monotonous; in "Stage Mother" she offers her best performance since she has come to the screen. Maureen O'Sullivan is pleasing as the young ballet danseuse.

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/30/1933 | See Source »

If those two eminently worthy old gentlemen Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk and Dr. Adam Willis Wagnalls could have returned to earth last week to check up on their Literary Digest, they might have suffered enough of a shock to send them kiting back to their Lutheran heaven. As recently as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Digest Overhauled | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

Samarang (Bennie F. Zeldman) is a thin slice of life among the Malay pearl divers, made by Ward Wing and his wife. Lori Bara, sister of Theda Bara. When they went to Samarang, the Wings were fortunate enough to find, first of all, a native girl too poor to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 10, 1933 | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

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