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Hero of the tale is Kassner, a Communist intellectual, an important party organizer, who has just been arrested by the Nazis. He has false identification papers, and luckily does not much resemble the photograph of himself his captors compare him with. But they suspect him of being Kassner, and he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Comrades' Fate | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Martha Dobie (Miriam Hopkins) and Karen Wright (Merle Oberon) open a school for girls in an old house Karen has inherited from her grandmother. Young Dr. Joseph Cardin (Joel McCrea) helps them and falls in love with Karen. One of her grandmother's acquaintances, Mrs. Tilford, befriends them by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 30, 1936 | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

¶ In England Dr. Edward Arnold Carmichael of London conducted volumetric experiments which convinced him that when a person hears a loud, sudden noise his arms and legs shrink in size. Reason: noise, like cold, pain, fright or excitement, releases nerve impulses which contract the capillaries, diminish their blood content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vales & Swales | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

This time he is a singing fisherman who throws an egg at Tenor Alan Mowbray because he does not like his voice. Hiding from the carabinièri under the terrace of a big house, he hears Gladys Swarthout rehearsing a scene from Romeo & Juliet. Next day when Kiepura is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: Mar. 9, 1936 | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Polls. No magic is involved in Emil Hurja's election predictions. His method is simply to avoid opinion, stick to statistical facts. Letters received by the Democratic National Committee and at the White House are all carefully cataloged by subject and place of origin, thereby giving Mr. Hurja some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Roosevelt, Farley & Co. | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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