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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture follows George Eliot's book very closely, so some of the more impossible situations in the plot have to be blamed on her Victorian methods of story-writing. When Maggie Tulliver stands in the forbidden embrace of Philip. Brother Tom conveniently hoists himself over a fence in the background. When Maggie breakfasts with Stephen after having spent an unwilling night in his company, she is seen by all and sundry who might like to defame her character. The poor girl doesn't have a chance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Professor: "You're the toast of the East, Brother Snavely, for the job your Big Redmen did on Ohio State in their own back yard. You get an 'A' on the report card for that...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: WHATS HIS NUMBER? | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...have shot him while they had him. When he returned for keeps in 1937, he was no longer a martyr to the Communists. Their International Labor Defense not only refused to aid Fred Beal but covertly discouraged all efforts to save him. He was arrested last year at his brother's home in Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Proletarian Detour | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Acting honors, such as they are, must go to the lesser members of the cast. A girl named Carol Bruce deserves a far better part than she has, and Tom Ewell, late of "Brother Rat," is easily the best man on the stage. The chorus is gorgeous to look at, and the girls do more than well by Al White, Jr.'s rather unimaginative routines. Harry Horner's sets are excellent, but they meet strong antagonists in Billi Livingston's atrocious costumes...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/25/1939 | See Source »

...Archduke Robert, 24, second son of the late Austrian Kaiser Karl, was sent from Belgium to Paris by his brother Archduke Otto, 26, the Habsburg Pretender, with an offer to recruit a full division of Austrian refugees and send them to fight on the Western Front if Britain and France will announce as one of their war aims "restoration of Austria as an inde pendent State." Already in France with a similar proposal was Austria's onetime Heimwehr troop leader and Vice Chancellor, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, onetime friend of Adolf Hitler, who recently ordered confiscated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Refugees | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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