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Father Yvon's career as a man of God goes no further back than the War, in which he, a simple Breton from Douarnenez, began fighting as a private, finished as an infantry lieutenant scarred by eleven wounds. After the armistice he entered the Capuchin novitiate, preached to Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Grand Banks Capuchin | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

Both pictures at the University this week are fairly riotous, although the feature number adds a dash of satire to the run of rollicking fun. In "The Ghost Goes West," Robert Donat, last of the clan of Glourie, is forced to sell his ancestral castle at the moment Jean Parker...

Author: By J. E. A., | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

When Scotti announced his retirement from the Metropolitan Opera Company three years ago, Manhattan newspapers devoted columns to his proud career, his intelligent use of a voice that was never booming, his subtle impersonations of such villains as Iago in Otello, Chim-Fen in L'Oracolo, Scarpia in Tosca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Scotti | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

M. Munro & Co. manufacture an ingenious "Munrospun Sock" into which is woven its own garter. Stopping at their booth, King Edward VIII pulled up his trouser leg, revealing a Munrospun Sock, and said: "I have been wearing socks like these for four years. They are the most remarkable socks you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Salesman Sovereign | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Mr. Cohan's support is pleasing throughout, although perhaps the three leading women enunciate a little too clearly and speak a little too earnestly, in contrast with the star's jolly abandon. But Joseph Leggitt, acted by Charles D. Brown, deserves a palm along with his colleague. Calvin's alter...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

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