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...describe the homely adventures of two Negro boys (Amos is high-voiced, nervous; Andy is deep-voiced, domineering) who operate, with one cab, the "Fresh-Air Taxicab Company of America, Incorpulated." They lead humble love-lives and club-lives ("The Mystic Knights of the Sea"), and run a whole gamut of perplexities and predicaments not too exaggerated to be recognized by their listeners. They are supported by a host of supernumeraries, but they produce all these voices themselves, including that of an occasional dog. So intimately concerned do their audiences become with the careers of Amos 'n' Andy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amos 'n' Andy | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...play ends with Terekhine's crime discovered and his punishment in the offing. He obviously represents the gamut of hypocritical, cruel, supremely selfish obstacles to the Soviet ideal. At one point he rehearses a speech about hunger with his mouth full of bread and beer. But even as Terekhine is apprehended, so the authors seem to imply that the Soviet cause will ultimately be purified. Full of good talk and temperamental skirmishes, the play reveals a sophisticated degree of analysis. It is the first production of the Theatre Guild Studio, experimental offshoot of the Theatre Guild employing its younger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...humor his literary ambition and let him go east. In a sleepy little village on the Hudson he boards with his impoverished cousins, the Tracys, and discovers an old house, the Lorburn family mansion, built in the early 19th Century style of "Hudson River Bracketed." Vance runs the usual gamut of the literarily ambitious small-town boy; he discovers that he is no poet, goes home to Euphoria, gets a job on the local newspaper. But his ambition will not be downed: three years later he gets back to Manhattan on the strength of one published story, marries his Tracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quiet, Please | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Japanese art circles the work of M. Foujita is considered French, mediocre. In France it is generally held to be Nipponesque, exotic, original. Foujita's women run the gamut from harlots to Madonnas, but all have catlike eyes. Asked last week about his acrobatic Parisian wife, callous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Foujita's Return | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...there is little to be asked for in the way of increased athletic equipment and facilities which is not now being carried out by the H. A. A. Every one who wants to play football, plays football. Anyone who wants to row, rows; and so on throughout the whole gamut of organized athletics, there is opportunity and equipment for all, The one exception is the new gymnasium. Throughout the current year there has been talk of the difficulty of raising sufficient funds for its completion, and at present the plan is to leave the construction of the top story until...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. A. A. SURPLUS | 5/2/1929 | See Source »

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