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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter literary history. Herndon, who had been Lincoln's law partner in Springfield for 22 years, began collecting his biographical material immediately after Lincoln's assassination. As monumental books on Lincoln appeared-Lamon & Black's outspoken Life, the ten-volume study of Nicolay & John Hay-Herndon read them eagerly but shook his head because the figures they presented were not the Lincoln he knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragic Life | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Last week a semi-constructed forest model involving some deer and a semi-constructed model for a bank involving a swarta of armed soldiers scrambling ever a hay barricade at Bunker Bill were placed nearby. When the sculptor went out he unconsciously left some occer grazing in the field in front of the soldiers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

Bachelor Born (by Ian Hay; produced by Milton Shubert in association with Ruth Selwyn). Since the recent razzing in London of You Can't Take It With You (last year's Pulitzer Prize comedy), and the lukewarm reception of several English comedies in Manhattan, drama authorities have been cogitating once again the old question: What is the difference between English and American humor? British fun, according to British Authorities J. B. Priestley and Charles Morgan, is more subdued; Yankee fun is more roistering. By all the rules, Bachelor Born, which was a hit in London (under the title The Housemaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...fair-skinned wife, Walter White is blond and palefaced. He himself does not know how much Negro blood runs in his veins; Harvard's far-ranging Anthropologist Earnest Alfred Hooton computes it at 1/64. But despite a skin that last week fooled fellow guests at Washington's Hay-Adams House, Walter White has always regarded himself as a Negro. He remembers that his father's house was almost burned down during an Atlanta race riot in his childhood. He recalls too that his father died in agony when the surgeons of the white ward of an Atlanta hospital, to which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Black's White | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Nothing Sacred" was produced by Selznic International, which is vaguely affiliated with United Artists. David O. Selznic happens to be in the good graces of John Hay Whitney, who owns the Technlcolor process, the best color process developed commericially to date. Last year he produced "A Star is Born," with all those frightful orange and blue sunsets. After much experimenting, for which his color director, William A. Wellman, deserves great credit, he has produced in "Nothing Sacred" the most true-to-life film yet to appear. When Miss Lombard is draged out of the East River, she looks wet. When...

Author: By C. L. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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