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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...convention last week. There were the nameless dead-of catastrophe, foul air, killing hours in the mines; murdered by company thugs; murdered, too, by union gangs whose internecine wars reddened the rise of U. M. W. A. and John Lewis. And at home last week in Glenalum, Sarah Ann and Carbondale, Black Lick and Conemaugh, in coal towns from Nova Scotia to Alabama, were the 600,000* members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Jubilee | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...office, an artist's studio, an all-night Coffee Pot, the Metropolitan Museum, the play brightly wanders all around the town-without ever really getting inside it. Its people-the opportunist and the radical, the glamor girl and the little old lady, the sailor and the floozy (Ann Thomas)-are all cut out of cardboard. Only Rice's bitter, cynical, wisecracking producer walks on his own legs, and even he is stagy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Blonde Cinemactress Ann Sothern, scheduled for an appendectomy, announced her scar would be crescent-shaped. Reason: "I have discussed all possible scars with my physician and I have chosen what I believe to be the most artistic. . . . It's costing me so much I'm going to keep it just 'for myself. I will contemplate its artistry in private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Married. Lee Powell, who plays the cinema role of the Lone Ranger; and Norma Rogers of York, S. C.; in Chicago. (Three days later, radio's Lone Ranger, Earle Graser, became the father of a daughter, Gabrielle Ann, in Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

William Gargan talks and looks Joe Turp, makes the film an authentic piece of Brooklyn regionalism. Ann Sothern rattles Ethel Turp's tongue and one little brain cell in Joan Blondell style. Walter Brennan somehow manages to be touching instead of foolish, as the lifelong bachelor devoted to the woman who married the other fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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