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...Dunster House wags who roller skate from Dunster House to the Eliot House Cafeteria, every night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 11/23/1933 | See Source »

Oddly enough the directors have seen fit to omit those scenes so common to cinema colleges: there are no freshman skull-caps in evidence, no beauteous co-eds roller-skating on the campus and no fraternity initiations. Considering that it has taken only four years for Hollywood genius to advance from the nauseating stupidity of the Red Grange opus to the amiable nonsense of "Saturday's Millions," a naturally optimistic soul might find reason to believe that it will not be more than forty years before a really good football movie is produced...

Author: By E. G., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/1/1933 | See Source »

...comedian named Billy House who is as incredibly fat behind as before and who, constantly hungry, at one point requests "a steak so big you can milk it." The music is indifferent but an extraordinarily graceful young man named Paul Gerrish performs equilibrial miracles on a pair of roller skates. And Producer Carroll's "Most Beautiful Girls in the World," so pretty that it seems a pity they have to work, keep very little of themselves secret. Culminating the fan number ("Did you ever see such fans!" leers Comedian House), a Miss Gay Orlova arises attired in just barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Sep. 25, 1933 | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

...watch Johnny, 17 mos. old. roller-skating through the corridors of Manhattan's Babies Hospital, dressed only in a diaper and shoes, is that institution's favorite daily diversion. Johnny has been roller-skating since last April, which was before his first birthday. He now boldly coasts down inclines, steers around corners. Skating is not Johnny's sole athletic accomplishment. At seven and one-half months he began to practice swimming. Now he can dive and swim under water. Other abilities: climbing up a steeply inclined plank, climbing from a 5-ft. pedestal. Johnny's trainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychologists in Chicago | 9/18/1933 | See Source »

Four amateur bullfighters on roller skates: four fights with two-year-old calves wearing rubber shoes to enable them to run on a board skating rink; in the El Toreo Bullring, Mexico City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 28, 1933 | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

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