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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bert Lahr is at his best when he goes royal, wrinkling his sub-Bourbon nose and speaking French as though afraid it might bounce back and hit him. As for Ethel Merman, if she is a little less than kin to Du Barry, she is more than kind-makes her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Nothing so intrigues a reader of London's illustrated press as a good, meaty article on the daily life of a cinema star, an Earl's daughter, an Indian Raja. On sale in the U. S. last week was the latest U. S. edition of London's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life of a New Yorker | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Picture Post's reporter was a pale, cadaverous Briton named Douglas MacDonald Hastings, who last spring spent two weeks in Manhattan with a cameraman. According to Journalist Hastings, an average New Yorker lives in suburban Larchmont, "goes up to work" on the subway. His grandfather was a German immigrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life of a New Yorker | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Gertrude, the average New Yorker's wife, came from an old New England family. "In Gertrude's home in the South it was felt that she might have done better for herself." They were married as soon as they had the price of an automobile, for "in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life of a New Yorker | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

For 20 years Joseph Vincent Connolly plugged for Hearst, always hard, sometimes brilliantly. He signed up Bob ("Believe It Or Not") Ripley, saw that Popeye starred in Elzie Segar's comic strip Thimble Theatre, sent H. R. Knickerbocker to Vladivostok in 1931 because Knickerbocker, long before it broke, smelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gorty Up | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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