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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moonlight Sonata (Pall Mall) has its soul in Parnassus, its feet in Grub Street. A trite British treatment of cinema's tritest theme, it makes the wobbly point that music hath charms to shoo the city slicker out of the country girl's heart. But what lofts it to the skies for two memorable reels is the piano-playing of 77-year-old Ignace Jan Paderewski, most notable pianist of his time, in cinema a tired old man in a tacky dress suit, a mismanaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...seller about life among Chinese businessmen, skeptics may have suspected that his Chinese sympathies had been inspired by his profitable Shanghai advertising business. When they learned that he had long been a Confucian, even skeptics had to admit it looked as though he had written from a well-informed heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chinese Wise Man | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

This summer's feature will be three days shore leave in Havana, the heart of the rumba country. The tars will be turned loose in the town, and except for an occasional watch duty, may remain on shore during that time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Naval ROTC Cruise In Summer Features Three Day Sojourn in Havana | 5/13/1938 | See Source »

Just a boy at heart, Laemmle takes time off to watch the boats go by. "Just a short time ago I witnessed the unloading of a Japanese freighter in San Pedro Harbor," he writes. "The ship was discharging a vast cargo of meshed wiring which is manufactured in many sections of this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Laemmle Asks for Buy American Drive; Signs His Appeal "Patriotically Yours" | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

Although the regular companion picture, "Romance in the Dark," brings Gladys Swarthout and John Boles in a pleasant, if unoriginal, musical, tonight's special showing of "Paradise for Three" may be more heartily endorsed. Despite the classic angle, dear to the heart of German A, it is good comedy in the best Robert Young tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

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