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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bachelor Mother was adapted from an eight-year-old German musical which songwriting Producer B. G. ("Buddy") De Sylva found tucked away in his sock. It was directed by RKO's current wonder boy, hawk-faced, 26-year-old Director Garson Kanin (A Man To Remember, The Great Man Votes). The picture is fresh, bright, human, hilarious, but its production was a series of crises...
Scientifiction, which deals almost exclusively with the world of tomorrow and life on other planets, was inspired by Jules Verne's and H. G. Wells's fantasies. Father of pseudo-scientific magazines was a shrewd, fat old man named Hugo Gernsback, an old-time radio fan, who in 1926 started Amazing Stories. It zoomed like a moonward rocket. Today the magazines in this prosperous publishing group (chiefly controlled by the big pulp firms of Street & Smith, Standard Magazines and Ziff-Davis), average about 150,000 readers apiece (sometimes much more), make a good living for many a shamo...
...Town (Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor) for Rinso. Substitute, starting July 25: The Human Adventure, a series of dramatizations, by CBS and the University of Chicago, of technological discoveries in the U. S. university research laboratories...
...would be chagrined to learn when he finished the job that someone else had had the same idea, counted faster. To spare scholars such disappointments, James M. Osborn, a young Yale research associate, this week undertook to tell them what their fellow scholars were doing. With an assistant (Robert G. Sawyer), he compiled a comprehensive list of studies being made by researchers in the humanities throughout the world. His list, Work in Progress (not to be confused with the famed working title of James Joyce's Finnegans Wake), was produced by the international Modern Humanities Research Association and will...
...lepidissime, facetissime, venustissime, jocosissime, ridibundissime, te cum turba tua Leporum Facetiarum Venustatum locorum Risuum, ego . . . admitto ad gradum Doctoris in Litteris honoris causa,* said George Stuart Gordon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford to P. (for Pelham) G. (for Grenville) Wodehouse...