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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Murry Guggenheim, 81, senior member and financial brains of the Manhattan firm of Guggenheim Bros.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. His outstanding philanthropy: the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim Foundation, providing training for dental hygienists, establishing free dental clinics for poor New York children.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

The customer Hollywood tries hardest to please, according to Author Thorp, is the wife of a man earning more than $1,500, living in a city of more than 50,000 people. Her husband is the movies' average man and from his pockets comes more than half of Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Author Thorp's funniest and most tactful chapter deals with reform in the movies and such organizations as the League of Decency, the Hays office, the State boards of censorship. Censors in Virginia, she finds, are most concerned about sex; in New York with political corruption; in Kansas with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Who, What and How | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

The Cat and the Canary (Paramount). This old chiller-diller, which has as many lives as a cat, haunted Broadway for a long run, has twice before been made into a movie. Paramount has brushed off some of the cobwebs, draped some bigger, stickier ones for harassed Heroine Paulette Goddard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

If there is a movie fan living who does not know who killed Lawyer Crosby in the wall behind the bookcase, The Cat and the Canary has been imitated often enough for even cinemamateurs to detect The Cat by its feline smile, before it gets the bird.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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