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...Bouquets (by Eleanor & Herbert Farjeon; produced by Marc Connelly in association with Bela Blau) is a mannerly, mock-genteel operetta of Victorian days which delighted Londoners for almost nine months, will not delight the U. S. so long. It does a fairly good job of trying to eat its cake and have it too: makes gay, simpering fun of itself while it strives after a light-as-thistledown charm. a snows-of-yesteryear nostalgia. Its lyrics are mock and merry-andrew, its tunes (out of such Victorian composers as Offenbach, Balfe and Gounod) softly glide and sway, recalling gaslit ballrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...Phaidon Press is the 15-year-old creation of a fiery little Viennese bibliophile, Bela Horovitz. Beginning in 1925 to produce art books on a large scale for the German market, he wratched his sales boom for several years, then decline after Hitler came to power. Two years ago he decided to publish some of the same books and some new ones for French and English-speaking countries. Printing first editions of between 70,000 and 100,000 copies, Publisher Horovitz has been able to bring his prices down to the popular novel level. Scholars and critics respect them because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Home Museums | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...from a secondary pneumonic infection. "Infants," said Dr. Rice, " may recover and general health may improve under proper management, although a residual pneumonic process may persist indefinitely." To prevent such accidents, Dr. Rice advised doctors and parents "not to give oily nose drops to a struggling, rebellious infant." Dr. Bela Schick, child specialist on whom Dr. Rice called for an opinion, "prohibits the use of oils in the noses of infants." Dr. Charles Hendee Smith, another specialist, advised: "Nose drops should not be used in feeble, marantic [emaciated], sick or young infants, certainly not before the age of three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nose-Drop Warning | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...half dozen or so first-class women fencers in the U. S. are not famed, but they are exceedingly well known to each other. For the past several months they have been following with surprise and concern the career of the latest addition to their minute number-Mrs. Bela de Tuscan of Detroit. Married to Detroit's best fencing master, trained as a dancer until her husband persuaded her to take up foils three years ago, Mrs. de Tuscan made sensational headway in the Olympic tryouts that have been going on all winter. Her colleagues could hardly wait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tuscan Title | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Ladeley Husted, of Charlettesville. Virginia, cytegeneties: Bela A. Lengyel, of Budapest, Bungary, mathematies; Sheldon C. Reed, of Montpelier, Vermont. genetics; Arthur E. Bent, of Weston. Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, and Walter S. Florx of Bridgwater, Virginia, cytogenetics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LERNER GRANTED LEAVE, UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES | 1/14/1936 | See Source »

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