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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...element of this film; all others are kept subordinate. And yet, the theme of a children's music school struggling to get along, though it sounds impossible, provides a moderately interesting plot. It also affords the chance to show off some truly remarkable child musicians and singers, of a breed quite distinct from Shirley Temple. A lad with a strikingly handsome face, Gene Reynolds, turns in one of the best juvenile performances to be seen of late. Joel McCrea and Andrea Leeds are in evidence too, but their duties are light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...adds the final denunciation that "the fittest and best of the nations are sent out to be killed, and the trash stay at home to breed more trash and plan more wars." It is in answer to this situation that Professor Hooton would send both the mentally deficient and the congenitally deformed to fight the wars...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hooton Plans War to Benefit Mankind Which Would Be Fought by Misfits | 10/19/1939 | See Source »

...element which "The Women" didn't have,--a well constructed plot that swings the audience along from crack to crack without a let-down. Another element, sort of added attraction, is some thought-content,--not much, it's true, but some. The characters of Madison Breed and B. J. Wickfield are drawn on a slightly higher level than the broad, low, and beautiful plain of sex, even though they make frequent excursions downward. The girl-lead, Cindy Lou, while undergoing ordeal by hell-fire and brimstone in the process, eventually lands on the top of the heap in the final...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/18/1939 | See Source »

...Marshall Field, Arthur B. Hancock, Robert A. Fairbairn. *Only one other U. S.-bred horse had ever won this 133-year-old race: the late Speculator James R. Keene's Foxhall in 1882. ?At that time the thoroughbred was just beginning to be established as a breed in England. *All thoroughbreds have the same birthday, January 1. So that foals may be dropped as soon after January 1 as possible (a mare carries her foal eleven months), the thoroughbred mating season is around the first of February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scarlet Spots | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...laws breed litigation, and a great invisible subsidy of the New Deal has been enjoyed by the legal profession. No one knows this better than Lawyer Robert Houghwout Jackson, now Solicitor General. Painfully consistent in his New Dealism was he last week when, addressing the Junior Bar Conference (lawyers under 36) at San Francisco, he put his profession on notice as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Justice for All | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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