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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealed in Phyllis Bottome's Danger Signal. As in her Private Worlds (1934), Phyllis Bottome's latest prospective best-seller works everything out by Individual Psychology-the theory of the late Dr. Alfred Adler, inventor of the "Inferiority Complex," Freud's onetime colleague and greatest rival...
...founder of the Abbey Theatre in his early maturity, an Irish nationalist in his middle years, Yeats also became a Nobel prizewinner (1923), a Free State Senator, and was widely accepted, in his old age, as a world figure whose poetry and prose could be measured with the greatest produced in his time. His art meanwhile changed from the youthful rhythms of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, which schoolchildren now memorize...
...greatest beauty to date was Summer
...greatest money-makers in the history of the theatre, the Gilbert & Sullivan operas today are finding new ways of striking gold. In Chicago an all-Negro Federal Theatre Mikado, set to swing, has the town by the ears. Last month Britain's G. & S. Films, Ltd. released The Mikado in Technicolor-the first full-length cinema version of a Gilbert & Sullivan opera in history...
...Next? Most experts now agree that Joe Louis is the greatest fisticuffer of all time, predict that no one will beat him in the next two years-some say five, some say ten. Nevertheless, boxing managers are raking the country for a potential "white hope." Most promising youngsters discovered since last summer are a pair of Irishmen, Pat Comiskey and Billy Conn, and a Bohemian named Johnny Paychek (né Pacek). Eighteen-year-old Pat Comiskey of Paterson, N. J. has a powerful right-hand punch, has knocked out eight opponents in a row. Pittsburgh's 6-ft. Billy...