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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still the Isolationists struggled on, insisting on the closest inspection of the gift horses' teeth. For four and a half hours West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt bellowed opposition, drawing breath only to mimic stridently Franklin Roosevelt's Groton-Harvard accent and inflection. North Carolina's Reynolds charged that Stalin sank the Athenia. But only the stubbornest Senate orator could ignore the fact that the galleries lay almost empty day after day. Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee. This week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Gift Horses | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...reality the second feature, is "Intermezzo, A Love Story." Plot and dialogue form one grand summary of all the trite situations and lines in movie love. However, it introduces a Swedish girl named Ingrid Bergman who has all the earmarks of a good actress,--even down to the Swedish accent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

...music, the present company gives it the drubbing of a high-school band. Pathetic gags meant to reveal the simple natures of the characters are played for comedy lines. June Walker is a likable if unimpressive heroine, but Giuseppe Sterni's only virtue is his authentic Italian accent, and the Napa Valley is not the part of California where Cinemactor Douglass Montgomery is most at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Here I am a Stranger (20th Century-Fox). Blubber-lipped David Paulding (Richard Greene) is a clean, upstanding, well-dressed boy with a veddy, veddy English accent and a brace of dimples he can switch on and off like headlights. His limpid life is complicated by a two-father complex. Father No. 1 (and sire) is Duke (pronounced Dook) Allen (Richard Dix), Stafford 1917, football, track, a brilliant writer who 20 years later is still winding up Chapter Four of his first novel. Father No. 2 is a famous lawyer (George Zucco) who married David's mother (Gladys George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...ACCENT ON POWER-Valeriu Marcu-Farrar & Rinehart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Power Politician | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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