Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing he did not get from his boyhood. At the age of nineteen, while taking mail from the trains, he was "bitten by the bug to see the country at the expense of the Pullman Company." And for the next five years, as porter on the 20th Century Limited, that went from Boston to Chicago, he matured from wide-eyed innocence to philosophical manhood. As for seeing the country, he "looked up its worst to begin with, and then came gently to its best." But whatever else came out of these years, Snowball drew one definite conclusion. He was "thoroughly...
Smilin' through her teeth, redhaired, green-eyed, pink-cheeked Jeanette Mac-Donald, now a matronly 34, plays the dual role of Moony can, a 20th-Century damozel who is shot by a jilted swain (Gene Raymond) at her wedding to Brian Aherne, and Kathleen, the 20th-century ward of the aged bridegroom, who bitterly resents his ward's falling in love with the American son (Mr. Raymond again) of the scoundrel who shot his bride...
...fevered sounds of eight strings and woodwinds (in various combinations). Modernist Schönberg's jittery measures, more talked about than listened to (Pierrot has had only two U.S. performances), here get their first recording, a fine example of what, 30 years ago, began to ail 20th-century music...
Emerging from the shadows of its pro-Chamberlain appeasement period, the Times last week was credited with throwing away its old-school tie. getting a bead on the 20th Century instead of the 19th, reclaiming its right to be called "The Thunderer...
...Yank in the R.A.F. (20th Century-Fox) shows Tyrone Power in modern dress -and about time. As a cocky American pilot with an eye for the ladies, dark-eyed Tyrone is a Yank who fights at Dunkirk with the R.A.F. Although he feels called upon from time to time to refer to himself as "a worm," his performance is not as bad as all that, is pleasantly human...