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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elsie Janis was back on Broadway for the first time since 1928. After years in retirement, Elsie has not slowed up. With no voice to speak of, she still puts a song across. She can, for the hell of it, still turn a cartwheel or twirl a rope. She screws up her face and becomes Sarah Bernhardt, juggles her voice and becomes Ethel Barrymore. Or she just wanders around the stage dropping patter soft as daisies until bang! something sharp pops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Comebacks | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...glibly punished, virtue too sentimentally recompensed. Perhaps a better artist (though a less canny storyteller) would have rung down his curtain as his characters, in bewilderment and trepidation, reached the threshold of their eternal home. It takes at least a Dante to draw a convincing diagram of Hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...because I expressed my opinion about local conditions, in a local paper. I expressed my opinions then and I'll express them again! The blood of my people has been shed in three American wars that America might be a free country and I sure as hell will carry on that tradition. Three people came to me and told me not to start a newspaper. I wondered why! Now, I know why! "It is dangerous for your reputation," one said. I say to hell with a reputation (what is a reputation?) when a person can't open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...wrote Mr. Andrews several weeks ago, but so far, no answer. This is one of the things that disgusts me with the Administration. They pass a law and worry the hell out of a small businessman like myself because you don't know what to do and can't find out. If I am subject to this law, when are they going to have some local offices so a person can get some additional information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 19, 1938 | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...Deal when he retired. Last week he wrote: "Much of our present weakness is in the fear and hysteria being engendered among the American people for ... political purpose. ... A nation so scared and so burdened financially is not in a condition to lick anybody. And then, who in hell are we afraid of? With Japan absorbed . . . with the balance of power so nearly equal in Europe, where is there an ounce of naval or military strength free to threaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rearmament v. Balderdash | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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