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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Considerably dressed down for the cinema audience and even with its name changed. "Biography," that stage success of last year now appears as "Biography of a Bachelor Girl." Much of S. N. Behrman's theme of the struggle between mature tolerance and impulsive youth has been scrapped. In its place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/7/1935 | See Source »

The U. S. Senate is an assortment of 96 statesmen and timeservers, wise men and fools, honest men and hypocrites, hardy-hearts and lily-livers, but the collective assortment has one distinguishing characteristic: it goes its own way and makes public life hard for every President. For the greater part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Prevailing Sentiment | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

In the state of Maine, 95 out of every 100 farmers own their own land. But the civil war failed to change basically the Southern plantation system. In Georgia and Mississippi, approximately 70 out of every 100 farmers work somebody else's land as tenants or share croppers. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: 'Bootleg Slavery | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

When Marc Connelly, under the influence of Roark Bradford's Ol' Man Adam An' His Chillun, had finished The Green Pastures, he took it to Producer Jed Harris. Producer Harris was busy with Uncle Vanya (TIME, April 21, 1930). Producer Crosby Gaige also turned down the Connelly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Heaven on Earth | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

This story of contemporary Sydney is not so much a novel as an interrelated series of portraits; the portraits are not so much human likenesses as translations into brilliant descriptive talk of different types of human problems. Her characters are mostly riff-raff but gloriously magnified and particularized into heroic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Silk Purse | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

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