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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wore a kepi and baggy pants in Beau Geste ; Victor McLaglen, who has played many a bullying soldier; and Claudette Colbert, who cuddles up to the role of Cigarette, the Legion mascot who finally gallops across the desert to save the battalion from extermination by the Arabs and die dreamily in the arms of the man she loves. Colman plays the part of the Briton-with-a-past who com mits patrician misconduct with a willowy Lady Venetia (Rosalind Russell) in a ruined monastery in the desert while the sound track wallows in the Kashmiri Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...Pops" tonight, there are other opportunities on every ensuing night with music which is almost guaranteed to soothe the fevered mind. For example, there is "Pomp and Circumstance" on Friday evening, or if you are in a slightly less martial mood, the Peer Gynt Suite. For the die-hards, there is the "Bolero" on Saturday, and for those who are seriously inclined, Heinrich Gebhard is to play Liszt's "Second Piano Concerto" on Sunday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 5/7/1936 | See Source »

...distinct ideas or clear and fruitful thinking? ... I can myself make nothing of this nostalgic preference save a diverting chance publicly to perpetrate as education delightful dinner-table repartee. . . . To some men the world of fact is only a small place in which to eat, sleep, drink, sexualize and die. To others it is a place primarily for dialectical self-exhibitionism. If one really wants to make ideas simple, clear, and distinct, he need only narrow his sympathies so as not to see the points of view of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Clear and Distinct | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...Forty-Gallon Baptis" gets a token he is going to die at 10 o'clock that night. He makes the event an occasion to prove to his benighted Free-Will neighbors the error of-their ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kentucky Home Brew | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...world in 1985 is a bitter indictment of male stupidity. Author Ertz foresees a civilization which has mastered the art of living but still resorts to war. Following the use of a new type of poison gas in a short but destructive international conflict, all females but one die of a mysterious disease, leaving the men in wild despair. The accidental survivor becomes queen of England and hope of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 4, 1936 | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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