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Poughkeepsie turned out en masse to see them motor through: one family chopped 20 ft. out of their lilac hedge to clear the view. At Hyde Park, where the royal standard was flown from the portico, the grueling formality and handshaking ended (the royal hands were swollen). After church on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Here Come the British | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

At Chicago's lively Art Institute, juvenile howls go up at little Miss Jewett's dainty vocabulary ("delightful, fascinating, exquisite"), her poetic prose: "In our ears the hurricane roars and silence knows us not. Out of confusion do we come and into confusion do we go. . . . Thus speaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Jewett Jape | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

In Dayton, Ohio, 67-year-old Orville Wright, who with his late brother Wilbur Wright flew the first airplane (at Kitty Hawk, N. C., 1903), took a 30-minute ride on the DC-4, biggest U. S. commercial landplane; his first flight in ten years. Said he: "It was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 19, 1939 | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Not everything was bright and sunny, of course. After the first four or five "frame-ups" and "sell-outs", the effect of the play's message began to wear off, simply because Mr. Blitzstein had cried "wolf" too often. The music was occasionally too loud, and the articulation not always...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

The Boys from Syracuse. Delightful Rodgers & Hart musical made from Shakespeare's dull Comedy of Errors (TIME, Dec. 5).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Survival of the Fittest | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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