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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"Is death a door or a wall? ... I hear the Pagan maiden sing her wild love song until its wailing notes sweep the stars into one tear of pity for her breaking heart. But no answer comes. ... If this natural impulse to live after physical death cannot be relied upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Old Pitch | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Father Divine, taking his ease in his "heaven" in Harlem, drafted a telegram-unusually terse for him-to Mrs. Kaufman. Said he: "Wheresoever I am convinced from the within that my personal activities will be more constructive in the act of bringing an abolition of segregation and discrimination and establishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Angels Over Newport | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

In the Sonovox, a sound recording of a waterfall, a vociferating animal, rattling dice or whatnot is fed through wires to two little biscuit-shaped gadgets which are placed on each side of the throat against the larynx. These gadgets transmit the sound vibrations to the larynx, so that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sonovox | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Proud of the Sonovox, he does not regard it as a main-line achievement. Said he: "I'm a writer by trade. If I haven't got a writing job, fine-I'll fool around with this thing. But it's writing I want to do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sonovox | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

As translated, and practically rewritten, by Hecht and MacArthur (The Front Page, 20th Century), Ladies and Gentlemen gives Helen Hayes (Mrs. MacArthur) her first new play after three years and 969 performances of Victoria Regina. She was glad to escape from that "rarefied atmosphere," says she, "because I am fearful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tryout on the Coast | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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