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...then became a chorus girl, and it was not until two years later that I learned I had a good voice. After hearing me over the radio, the phonograph people asked me to make records. Well, it wasn't long then until Ziegfeld heard me, and put me in his shows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruth Etting Says Publicity is Tiring, But Gives Interview to Crimson--"But I Suppose it Must be Done," Crooner Admits | 12/10/1930 | See Source »

...wasn't too many centuries ago that Christ drove the money-lenders out of the temple. It wasn't more than a few years ago that someone remarked that the temple built to protect a spiritual fire is become the theatre of social manners. And it wasn't more than two days ago that Bishop Manning versus ex-Judge Lindsey took place in the tabernacle of the Lord, situated on Fifth Avenue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REVELATION | 12/9/1930 | See Source »

...situation blows over. Its a purely business measure as far as he is concerned. Constance goes on a solitary honeymoon to Paris and, with the help of a few gorgeous clothes, becomes an overnight sensation. She returns to find her former employer who decides, after one glance, that there wasn't much point in a purely platonic relationship...

Author: By E. E. M., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/3/1930 | See Source »

Salemme's Robeson was removed the night before the exhibit opened. To reporters suave Dr. Kunz explained that the statue had not been removed on racial or physiological grounds. "It wasn't that at all," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ecclesiastical & Icelandic | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

Died. Brig.-General Thomas Coleman du Pont, 66, famed Delaware industrialist-financier; of a throat affliction; in Wilmington. Born in Louisville, Ky. of a branch of the family that had moved there from Delaware (his father, Antoine Bidermann, his uncle Alfred Victor du Pont left because "there wasn't room in the powder business at the time for all the family"), he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he was an able athlete (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ib. at the age of 19). Beginning as a miner in Kentucky, he rose to be president and manager of several...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 24, 1930 | 11/24/1930 | See Source »

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