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...laughed. The director went out and said "What's the matter? Don't you like it? Why don't you laugh? Why don't you clap?" An old lady said "We'd like to laugh but we're afraid to interrupt the living actors It don't seem polite. We'd like to clap, but we don't know when. We don't at the pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Flanagan's Drama | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...from home to register in their own precincts, will not have to go home to register: they must find a nearby registration place, fill out the prescribed blank, which will be mailed to their home towns. Draft-age travelers on trains and airplanes Oct. 16 will have to interrupt their journeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: Fine Points for Eligibles | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Putting the Lux Radio Theatre on the air is a complicated business. Clearing rights to a script often takes weeks, and signing up stars is an uncertain enterprise. To make sure that cinema studios won't interrupt Lux plans by whisking actors away to distant locations, the Radio Theatre has established an elaborate understudy system. Rehearsals begin on Thursday, continue until air time Monday night. Part of the ritual of every rehearsal is a spot of tea, a custom introduced by Hollywood's British contingent. Seldom on hand until Saturday. De Mille, who receives $2,000 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hollywood Show | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...blows were delivered incessantly upon military, industrial and communications centres all across Naziland to Berlin, northeast to Bergen and Stavanger. Airports, munition dumps and-most ominous-concentrations of barges along the Lowland and French coasts, were targets attacked even in foul weather.* At all costs Britain must interrupt Germany's preparations, play for time. The Royal Navy's success in scotching France's sea power before the Axis could get it was a national bracer. For even if she stood off Blitzkrieg, Britain already faced Blockade. With customary exaggeration, the German High Command last week claimed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Storm Warnings | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Phyllis Padvano is a little girl of 8 who, no matter how badly she had to tell a person something, would never interrupt while he was talking. For that reason and others, last week Phyllis was crowned politest little girl in New York City. Sharing honors, as politest boy: G. William Kennell, 9, who would always give his seat to a lady in the subway, "unless I were too tired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Politeness in Children | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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