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The new Opera House, to be dedicated this week, is easily the most attractive and practical building of its kind in the U. S. The stage has every convenience- an elaborate arrangement of bridges and traps permitting any part of the floor to be lowered or raised, an imported electrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: San Francisco Memorial | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

In Mr. Robinson Crusoe (United Artists) bouncing Douglas Fairbanks Sr. cheerfully burlesques Daniel Defoe's old story. He does it by his familiar formula of expansio ad absurdum, inflating his original idea into incredible superlatives. Fairbanks is on his way to Sumatra to shoot tigers when his schooner yacht passes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 3, 1932 | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

The Dixie Highway and the National Road, two chalklines drawn across the smooth slate of Ohio, meet ten miles north of Dayton at a village called Vandalia. At Vandalia are the $100,000 grounds of the Amateur* Trapshooting Association of America, where, late every August, with eleven freight carloads of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Vandalia | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

In the Preliminary last week, first shooter in the field to post 25 straight was 17-year-old Bobby Olds of Lansing, Mich., who had a special desire to win. Last spring his family was evicted from their farm. Young Olds hawked vegetables, cultivated an onion patch, spent his spare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Vandalia | 9/5/1932 | See Source »

With window glass and chinaware, barbed wire and cutlery, fox traps, shotguns, steel work and woolen goods, out of Liverpool steamed S. S. Pennyworth (Dalgliesh Line) for the three-month port of Churchill on Hudson Bay. It was a test cargo, first shipment of goods into Canada's upper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: In & Out of Churchill | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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