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...proves his efficiency by showing the owner how to make a funny noise, by putting on a floorshow at the bakery's lunch room, in which he wears blackface and sings. Finally, as usually happens to him, Cantor is captured by the tallest lady in the cast (Charlotte Greenwood). According to the definitions by which Whoopee was fun, Palmy Days, though it contains jokes as old as the one about the capital of the U.S. being half what it used to be, would be funnier. Good shot: Cantor, disguised as a French savant, telling the fortune teller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

Under the Greenwood Tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Compact Disgust* | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...with a destiny. A group of ambitious, discontented nobles wanted to help him overthrow King Harry. Through his guardian, Brother Tobias, the Church also beckoned his aid. But the faction which turned out to be his unswerving support were the furtive, secret folk who had been driven to the greenwood by oppression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Compact Disgust* | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Once Peter had King Harry alone and at his mercy in the forest, but he played his advantage badly, almost swung for it. He lost his chance at the throne and he lost the beauteous Sabine Beauforest. In so doing he gained his soul, a kingdom in the greenwood, and anonymity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Compact Disgust* | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

Word came from London that Sir James Matthew Barrie (Peter Pan), whose right hand has been crippled by illness, had issued 20 private copies of a 60,000-word biography called The Greenwood Hat. Those of his friends to whom he sent copies of the book, including his particularly close friend and fellow Scotsman, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, are pledged to secrecy as to the volume's contents. Title of the book comes from a well-known Barrie legend. When he first went to London he decided to visit the late Editor Frederick Greenwood of St. James's Gazette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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