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Everybody Sing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stars 15-year-old Judy Garland, Hollywood's latest child singer. She turns the morning singing hour of the Colvin School for Girls into a swing session. Sent home to the jittery bosom of a family infected with the slightly threadbare lunacy which has been bothering recent cinema families, she croons her way to a career with the help of Olga, a screwball maid (Fanny Brice), and Ricky (Allan Jones), a singing chef. Best of the Kaper-Jurmann tunes: Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn. Best Fanny Brice number: Quainty Dainty Me with her famed spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...periodically enjoys "the happiest day of his life"; and there is only one spectacular run in the final football game--although Navy wins, of course. "Thoroughbreds Don't Cry" is not a tearjerker; Mickey Rooney does a good bit of acting as the cocky "Click" Donovan; and Judy Garland is very funny as a would-be glamorous actress...

Author: By W. R. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 2/4/1938 | See Source »

...another way entirely. Simultaneously one night 50 agents of the Treasury Department's Narcotics Bureau conducted a nationwide raid in Chicago, San Francisco, Butte, Pittsburgh and New York. Result was a motley crew of 23 suspects who, according to the Narcotics Bureau's New York head, Major Garland Williams, had used the Tong as the framework of a nationwide narcotics ring doing $1,000,000 worth of business a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Trapped Tong | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...Brookwood Labor College, first labor college in the U. S. Miss Evelyn Preston, a tall, dimpled, onetime Junior Leaguer, now president of the League of Women Shoppers (a labor auxiliary) gave the college a $50,000 women.'s dormitory. Among its other liberal and wealthy angels was the Garland Fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Academic Labor | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...whose guests ask: ''Have you anything to read?" This answer includes the work of 21 authors: two novels (Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale, Anne Parrish's All Kneeling): short stories by Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Albert Halper; Max Beerbohm's famed Christmas Garland, Governor Wilbur Cross's 1936 Thanksgiving Proclamation, characteristic arch Woollcott comments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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