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...biggest House in months. Result: For Sunday theaters-136. Against-144 (100 did not vote). High up in the gallery sat beaming Secretary Henry Martin of the Lord's Day Observance Society. Chortled he: "We believe that this victory . . . is an answer to prayer. They call us killjoys. Ha! ha! We are kindle-joys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Kindle-Joys | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...arrested and sent on to Khabarovsk, where they were told the GPU would determine their status. At Khabarovsk another official asked them: "Who is your father?" Said Peter: "He is a farmer. He owns 160 acres, 38 hogs, some farm machinery, four horses, and 15 head of cattle." "Ah, ha!" said the prosecutor. "Your father is a kulak." So Peter and John Stevens were thrown into a nice, new Soviet prison, six stories tall, and tried for espionage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Eastern Aeneid | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...Jack Dempsey brooded in a corner of his dim and crowded saloon. Fat, male Mother Kelly dished up steaks, drinks and hermaphroditic comedy at Mother Kelly's. Across Biscayne Bay, on the Miami side, painted men danced and profaned sweet songs at the Club Ha-Ha. In the casinos at Ben Marden's Colonial Inn, the Sunny Isles Club, the Royal Palm, gamblers crowded the roulette and dice tables. On the ocean side, Glamor Row flung its facade of stucco and neon at the sky and the sea: the new Lord Tarleton, the Versailles, the older Roney Plaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Good Season | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...left leg? Anyway she stays and gets everything mixed up. It's all mixed up. There's old negroes wandering around who can remember the Civil War. There's a train-master fifteen years. Virginia is supposed to be the state of virile men. Ha...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/21/1941 | See Source »

...given a U. S. background. Its hero was "Riccardo, Count of Warwick, Governor of Boston" in the 17th Century. He tenoriously fell in love with the soprano wife of his "Creole" secretary. After everyone had consulted a blackface sorceress named Ulrica, the Creole joined a conspiracy headed by two ha-ha-ing bassos, also in blackface, named Samuel and Tom. At a masked ball, the Creole killed his boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: They Opened the Opera | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

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