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SIRS: WOMEN ARE GLAD TO BE WITHOUT POLITICAL EXPERIENCE WHEN THEY GAZE UPON MALE SPECIMENS STOP I SAW THE SENATE IN SESSION YESTERDAY STOP I KNOW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 4, 1929 | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

...rather disagreeable way of reacting to dramas and pictures that are meant to be frightening. They laugh. Their laughter, of course, is not an expression of humor but simply of nervousness, a way of reminding themselves that it's all make-believe. When an insane murderer fixes his gaze on Chester Conklin's twitching face, they laugh; when a hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 31, 1928 | 12/31/1928 | See Source »

...again. Most profound artists are introverts, seekers of their own devious mysteries. In the mirror Rembrandt studied his greenish, fur-lined cloak, his quietly folded hands. But ever and again he returned to probe his own sad eyes, perhaps hypnotized himself as people do who gaze in mirrors. He saw a man who was not intoxicated exclusively with his own painting, but who loved the work of other men and, indeed, bought so much of it that he was fast approaching bankruptcy. A great deal of this embracing, sacrificial sympathy is visible in the self-portrait. A year after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sales | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...passenger from Antwerp. On the White Star liner Olympic lists, they found the name of Grand Rabbi Jehuda Leib Twersky. Hence, oh landing, they ducked into his cabin, ran a comb through the silky mesh of his beard and made him uncover his wrinkled body to their gaze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Diamond Commerce | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...intrepid pair returned from Africa to Brussels, last week, and were received by the King of the Belgians. Graciously His Majesty permitted Mrs. Akeley to set up a portable cinema projector; and soon life-size cinemagorillas were capering, fighting, leaping high, and giving suck to their young before the gaze of King Albert and Queen Elizabeth. The films were taken in the Belgian Congo, where Dr. Derscheid and Mrs. Akeley have been laboring to complete a suitable memorial to her late husband, Afric explorer Carl Akeley. The memorial is a stoutly fenced and protected park with a massive gateway above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gorilla Sanctuary | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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