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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jewish name which the producers of Having Wonderful Time were not forced to change: the author's. Given the job of killing many of his own best lines, Author Kober did so with purposeful objectivity. He also supplied new ones which were in many cases even better. Consequently, like an enlarged photograph which brings out virtues unsuspected in its smaller original, the cinema version of Having Wonderful Time is a kind of streamlined folk comedy, hilarious not because its characters are Jewish but because they are human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...photographs, found European influences strong in most of them, expressed polite interest but no overwhelming enthusiasm. C. In Venice, the U. S. exhibition of 63 paintings and no prints, including "old masters" like Winslow Homer and moderns like John Sloan, was overshadowed by a big British show. To signalize better Anglo-Italian relations, England, which sent no art to Venice's biennial two years ago, shipped 24 Epstein bronzes, 25 paintings by Christopher Wood, a roomful of work by Stanley Spencer, led enthusiastic Italian critics to call the British show the finest in the history of the biennial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Americans Abroad | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Whether the American Newspaper Guild was to be a labor union or a professional society was settled at its first convention, in St. Paul in 1934. The delegates realistically conceived the reporter as a creature of wages, hours and working conditions, bluntly declared that they wanted more, fewer and better, respectively. By the time its fifth annual convention met last week in Toronto,* the Guild was beyond all doubt a labor union. More than that: It was one of the most successful of the C.I.O.'s affiliates (to Chairman John L. Lewis, its record was "magnificent"); its struggle first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guilded Press | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Chicago hopes to steal New York's thunder through a rule limiting futures trading to hides not more than one year old (the younger a hide is, the better most manufacturers like it). In New York, trading in five-year-old hides is permitted. Effect of Chicago's restrictions was evident in last week's prices. Sample: September hides in Chicago were 8.79? a lb., in New York 8.58?. These prices are only about half what hides were bringing last year, for consumption of tanned leather was off 25% in the first four months this year. Despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tanned Futures | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...strong combination crew; somewhat rearranged a while ago when Jack Wilson replaced Barr Comstock at Stroke, has shaped up quickly and has a better-than-even chance of overpowering the Elis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Great Crews Clash at New London Friday Evening | 6/22/1938 | See Source »

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