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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When big-time Swindler Paul Reynard (Basil Rathbone) muffs that million-pound loan in London, his fussy French creditors threaten him with jail. Without batting a basilisk eye or ruffling a hair over his sinister profile, Swindler Paul explains to them that he forged the securities they hold for his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

But when a youthful bar-comber, handsome, down-&-out U. S. engineer Bill Gregory (Robert Cummings), insults Singer Irene, she falls in love with him. Her love saves Bill from his gin-&-bitter end, sets him to piping pure water from the hills (for the peons). By the time Dirk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

But when David begins to see that the world he has been brought up in is false, alas, he totes his bruised adolescence off to Father No.1, long since weaned from the bottle by David's influence and now a city editor. But to protect Father No. 2'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

The draft of the speech approved, Cardinal Mundelein dined, meditated, went to bed. Next morning, a secretary entered the Cardinal's bedchamber to awaken him for his devotions. But in his sleep, heart disease had brought death, as to all men, to George William Mundelein, 67.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Builder's Death | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Chicago had loved Cardinal Mundelein ever since it gasped, one morning in 1916, to learn that, at the first public dinner given for him, an anarchist cook had poisoned the soup, laid most of the 300 guests low-but not the new Archbishop.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Builder's Death | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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