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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Playwright Shaw: "I am going to teach Americans one of the things they don't know-how to put English drama on the screen. Every word will be written by me. Not the least regard will be paid to American ideas, except to avoid them as much as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Show, New Trick | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

To get out the revivified Sunset each month, Publisher Lane relies on slender, studious, Yankee-blooded William Ichabod Nichols. An ex-Rhodes scholar, he became an assistant Harvard dean (of freshmen) at the age of 22, and once helped elect a mayor of Cambridge, Mass. Now, at 33, Editor Nichols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sunset Gold | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Interviewed in Manhattan, 78-year-old Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton and his second wife, Julia Buttree Seton, 49, proudly announced that they were the parents of a five-month-old daughter, Beulah. Said Mrs. Seton: "People do look askance at us, and want to know if Beulah isn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Vittorio Mussolini, cinemogul son of Italy's dictator, voiced his fears that the decision of U. S. distributors to withhold their pictures from Italy would keep Italians from the movies. Then he added for his father's sake: "Personally and politically I am content that American films produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

In London Mrs. Neville Chamberlain reluctantly admitted that she had sent one of her husband's old shirts to a U. S. shirt collector. Said she: "If it gets about that 1 am giving away his clothes there would be no end to it. Why, he would very soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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