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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Heifetz, Heifetz plays Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso one night at Carnegie Hall. In the audience is a slum boy (Gene Reynolds), who found a ticket in the lobby, failed to sell it to anyone at the door. Heifetz' fiddle stirs in this embryonic cutpurse the will to resume his own studies on the violin. When the charitable music school which takes him in finds itself in an understandable financial jam, Heifetz is touched for a $5 bill, promises to attend the school's concert if he can. Although making him keep this amiable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Divorced. Gracie Fields (real name: Stansfield), 41, Britain's No. 1 music-hall comic; from Actor-Producer Archie Pitt; in London, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Convinced that "there is a yawning gulf between what we believe to be true and what the average German believes to be true," Stephen King-Hall last fortnight sent copies of a news-letter written in German, to people inside Germany. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear German Reader | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Most successful of all newsletters is grizzled, pipe-smoking Commander Stephen King-Hall's K.H. News-Letter. A smooth speaker on the "Children's Hour" of British Broadcasting Corp. (he told the boys & girls about Mrs. Simpson), Commander King-Hall started his news-letter to save himself the cost of answering his fan letters individually. Circulation of K.H. News-Letter has grown to 54,000 in three years, continues to grow at the rate of 500 a week. Commander King-Hall's chief source of information is the Foreign Office, where he goes three times a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear German Reader | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...soon as copies of this letter reached Germany, Dr. Goebbels and his press blew up. German papers reprinted parts of the letter (leaving out most of the above quotations) and Dr. Goebbels devoted 3,800 words to a scorching front-page reply. Gist of it was that Commander King-Hall was working for Britain's newly founded propaganda ministry and that Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax had helped him to compose the letter. In Rome, Fascism's mouthpiece, Virginio Gayda, dutifully echoed this view, took huffy exception to the Commander's reflections on the fighting qualities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dear German Reader | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

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