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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generous to make them pay their bills. Derived from Katharine Haviland Taylor's story The Failure, related with notable economy, his brief, triumphant biography provides Edward Ellis with a character actor's dream of a fat part. In it he gives a beautifully sustained, low-keyed characterization which, while probably not showy enough to get him an Academy Award, rates as one of Hollywood's outstanding performances of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

These surveys made, Occupational Adjustment advises schools to counsel their students about the character and requirements of available jobs, give them practical training courses. The report's most ambitious recommendation: schools should conduct their own placement bureaus, either independently or in cooperation with Government agencies, watch out for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pegs v. Holes | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Evans had shown that an uncut Hamlet is no stunt, but an illuminating and vital enlargement of the world's most famous play. Shakespeare's tragedy, smudgily superimposed on centuries of older material, muddied by contradictory First Quartos and Folios, bristling with controversial motivations, above all dealing with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Died. Elzie Crisler Segar, 43, comic-strip artist who created "Popeye the Sailor"; after long illness; in Santa Monica, Calif. Six hundred trademarked articles, a cinema cartoon and a radio program were named after Popeye. Because spinach was his only food its sales boomed, and the grateful citizens of Crystal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 24, 1938 | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

When Princess Radziwill heard that Daniele Varè was hesitating between a musical and a diplomatic career, she told him: "There is a new character for you to create. The Laughing Diplomat." This was at the Italian embassy in Berlin, in 1900, when Varè was 20. Young Varè...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's Funny? | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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