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In 1927 aggressive Hollywood had knocked the cinema industry of the United Kingdom flatter than any British heavyweight. From Lands End to the Shetlands, British cinemas were showing 16 Hollywood films to England's one. To get the slumped industry back on its feet. Parliament enacted a ten-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Buy British | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

One Captain van Toch, blue-eyed, beery Dutch mariner, trading for pearls along the coast of Sumatra, made the first discovery: he found, in a little-visited bay on one of the islands, a family of giant newts that walked erect when on land, could be taught to use a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genus Molge | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

Bailed as one of the best Gallic cinemas, "La Kermesse Heroique," after the novel by Charles Speak, forms the first offering of the French Talking Films Committee for 1937-38. It will be presented on Thursday and Friday, October 14 and 15, at the Institute of Geographical Exploration.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "La Kermesse Heroique" to Be First French Movie Film | 10/5/1937 | See Source »

Job of cinema producers is to produce cinemas. How to do so and at the same time deal with Hollywood's screen writers, actors and technicians, whose organizational activities in the course of the last month have reached a record peak, has lately been cinema producers' most pressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Producers' Tsar | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

This was a triumph for the extreme Leftists, who hold that tips are humiliating. Declared Minister of Labor Jean Lebas during the heated Chamber debate: "The worker should not receive as alms what is his right!" Under the bill, which faces strong opposition in the more conservative Senate, workers caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: No More Tipping? | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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