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It is true, however, that an inclusively cut characterization of the strange Chapayev is achieved, mostly through delicate direction. This Garibaldi of the Soviets is probably the best remembered of the heroes who sprang from the people to rid the new Russia of the White armies. A born leader of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE MAJESTIC | 2/26/1935 | See Source »

I refrain from asking what in the American scene is calculated to make fifteen millions of unemployed burst into spontaneous laughter. I refrain, from asking just what chortling in high glee over the delightful ironies of current economic phenomena will do for those fifteen millions. I refrain from asking how...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "God" | 2/19/1935 | See Source »

To Artist Wood, thanks for clarifying the underwear fashion in Iowa. Of the Minneapolis flannels which he bought for $10, Artist Wood told the Press: "It was worth it. These flannels are all that I could ask. They have been washed so often they have faded into a delightful shade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1935 | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

As the old saw has it, the Masters children are not bad children; they are just thoughtless when it comes to paying their elders respect or attention. Portly Actor Mitchell has his hands full with them, trying to get them out of scrapes, listening to their shocking biological revelations, accepting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 28, 1935 | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

Your suggestion of a clerical visit to the Mayor which changed his mind (making, as it does, a delightful little example of jesuitical method which would honor Eugene Sue) is prefaced by a modest ". . . If reports be true. . ." I offer in exchange on equally good or doubtful authority the report...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "A Yen For Art" | 1/23/1935 | See Source »

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