Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born just before the Civil War, James Buchanan Brady grew up near New York's Bowery to become the most arresting figure in the bizarre night life of Broadway at the turn of the century. The picture, handsomely produced by Edmund Grainger, sketches his boyhood and then concentrates on...
Edward Arnold, whose real name is Guenther Schneider, was born in 1890 in Manhattan. His father, a German furrier, died when he was 11, his mother when he was 15. At 11 he was apprenticed to a wholesale jeweler, but truant officers made him quit. He worked as a newsboy...
Since no Federal statute governs the claims which cinema producers may make for their efforts, these statements which appeared last week on behalf of Dante's Inferno were legally permissible though they had little or nothing to do with the actual contents of the picture. Dante's Inferno...
When William Somerset Maugham was 23, he wrote a little book on Spain called The Land of the Blessed Virgin. Having escaped uncongenial work in a London hospital, free for the first time, he fell pleasantly in love in Seville, where he was made a "pretty fool of." An inexperienced...
Last May one Richard Frey was arrested and charged with using profane language in a Chelsea performance of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty (TIME, June 17). Short time later one Martin Halabian was clapped into jail as a suspicious character. Presently the clerk of the Chelsea court received a...