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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> Still going strong after 18 months, Pins and Needles 1939, has basted in six new numbers, ripped out four old ones, looks better in its new dress. Best new gag: Neville Chamberlain's "if at first you don't concede, fly, fly again." Best new numbers: The Red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATRE: Show Business: May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

> "Imagine Joe's surprise when he finds that he has to buy, not one but six different catalogues for an aggregate cost of $4.75. Oh, well, it will make the old lady happy, so what the . . .?" > "Mrs. B. reads the catalogue to find out all about the picture. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: For Joe Bloake | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Submarine Canyons. Modern methods of exploring the ocean bottom by echo-sounding have disclosed several huge undersea canyons. One of these submerged gorges, lying off the Hudson River's mouth, is 130 miles long and its lower end lies under 7,500 ft. of Atlantic Ocean. One theory has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Academicians | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

If Union Pacific reminds veteran cinemaddicts of many another picture, that is not strange. Paramount's 1,200th picture, it was produced and directed by the same man who made its first (The Squaw Man) 26 years ago. Union Pacific is the 65th picture Cecil Blount DeMille has directed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Nono. In appearance Joyce is slight, frail but impressive. He stands five feet ten or eleven, but looks as if a strong wind might blow him down. His face is thin and fine, its profile especially delicate. He wears his greying, thinning hair brushed back without a part. Joyce reads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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