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...free-lance designer named Helen Watkins, found a new use for spaghetti. Designers Ring and Watkins got a huge assortment of spaghetti, far-falle, gnocchetti, scungilli and other uncooked Italian pasta, dyed it all colors of the rainbow and pasted it on the background of their windows in flower-like and treelike festoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Along the Avenue | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Little Foxes), has written an uneven play concerning Naziism, but it is by far the best on the subject to date. There is not a single Nazi in it. It tells of the daughter of a dead American diplomat (Mady Christians), who returns from Europe to her luxurious, flower-filled old home outside Washington, D.C., bringing with her the German engineer (Paul Lukas) she married 20 years before and their three children. Since 1933 her husband has been an underground fighter against Hitler and he is about to sneak back into Germany with funds for the movement. But his secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 14, 1941 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...more reflective moments Marty Hyman has always had a weakness for art. Sent to cover some grimy accident-ward tragedy, he would come back to the Record with unnewsworthy details-the faces of a helpless old man and a crippled child, a seamy portrait of an old flower vendor. Marty Hyman's touching, tear-jerking character studies appealed to Record readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Press Photographer | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Philadelphians who went to Marty's show this week recognized many a familiar item from the Record: the famous Flower Vendor, a deftly composed photograph of a circus elephant rampant on a field of water buckets, sharply etched pictures of choir boys, burlesque clowns, oyster fishermen, ballplayers, bums, nuns and children. Last week, before the show opened, Photographer Hyman was in Bethlehem, Pa. being pelted with coal and chased by strikers who didn't want to be photographed. But for the opening he put on his best suit, later guest-of-honored at a celebrity-thronged party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Press Photographer | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...they shook one another's hands, for at last the "free" Governments of German-conquered nations had meaning. But the most impressive demonstration outside of Yugoslavia itself was staged in Marseille, where in 1934 a Croatian terrorist assassinated King Alexander. Almost as if by magic, men & women bearing flowers appeared at the spot where the King was shot. Soon the street was covered with flowers piled high. When the police tried to break up this tribute, the people of Marseille bought tramcar tickets, dropped their flowers out of the cars. When the police closed the flower stores, the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Freedom Takes A Bastion | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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