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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adapted for the Lunts by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman from the French farce of Jean Hippolyte Giraudoux, is approximately the 38th dramatic version of the Theban legend of how all-powerful Zeus (Roman Jupiter) had to assume the mental as well as the physical aspects of Amphitryon before Alcmena would bed him. The Lunts studied the play, which they were quick to see contained one of their favorite situations, for several months before trying it out last June in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Later they took it to Baltimore, Washington and Cleveland, to whose critics the play seemed "mellow . . . exhilarating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Mr. & Mrs. | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...course, no one is there. I was just wondering if I was hungry, or what I could do to get out of this mood. It's hopeless; I'm no good for anything; I'm through. I guess I'll go to bed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/5/1937 | See Source »

...bereted Carlist militiamen were marching into Gijón's streets under hundreds of white flags of surrender, most of them rudely made from bed sheets. Regardless of their political opinions, crowds on the streets cheered with enthusiasm. For them Gijón's surrender meant an end of bombs and shellfire, most of all it meant food. Even before the fall of Bilbao, Generalissimo Franco discovered that food, of which his part of Spain has plenty, was the best Rightist propaganda he could use. So last week trucks loaded with bread, sausages, corn and rice started rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: Fall Before Winter | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

That what goes on inside my bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Indeed, I have often been a gardener," says God, turns to show a face in which Joseph recognizes his own face, cryptically passes on. Joseph goes home to bed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modernist Miracle | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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