Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...head fashion. Several of the stories in the first issue are about six months old (e. g., Starr Faithfull, Two-Gun Crowley, Bryan Untiedt) but an effort will be made to make the magazine a news-of-the-month resume. Publisher is Herman Rawitser (Flying Aces, Detective Dragnet, Football Classic, et al.); editor is one Percy L. Trussell...
...epic was written in the turgid waters of the Charles yesterday when a fighting Dunster crew went down to defeat under the stern of a Winthrop shell. Although a classic in itself, this event is important as the first in a long and happy series. Another cog has been ground in the ratchet of tradition...
Significance. Even before they went out to dinner, it was fairly obvious to first-afternooners that Playwright O'Neill had moved Greece to New England. Those who knew their Euripides were quick to detect a parallel between Mourning Becomes Electra and the classic tragedy, recalled how Agamemnon, returning from the Trojan War, was killed by his wife (Clymnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
...Young is capable as the girl pal sob sister, but the producers were rather unfortunate to cast her with Jean Harlow, for the contrast between the two shows all too clearly that Miss Harlow is a very poor actress and rather plain in comparison with Miss Young's almost classic beauty...
...more flesh, and into her place swings the rebust, long-limbed woman of our time, with a figure for health and a comradely eye for a horse. Literature falters before her baffling smile, and the sad young men are troubled. To those confirmed in the opinion that the classic chastity is of Diana a result, not a cause, this development must possess a kind of staggering charm...