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Last year a well-to-do, cinema-struck minister named James K. Friedrich formed Cathedral Films, made a religious picture, The Great Commandment, for some $130,000, sold it to 20th Century-Fox for $200,000. Also working on The Great Commandment was jovial, jug-shaped Jed Buell, who has done a little producing of his own. His Harlem on the Prairie, the first all-Negro western, grossed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dark Laughter | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...floor of the chamber were four gold vases, with covers in the form of human heads ornamented by blue and gold wigs; a large chalice shaped like a lotus flower, a long-necked bottle, a ewer, a spouted jug, a number of cups-all gold. Near the door was the skeleton of a small animal, apparently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Psousennes Found | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

British Agent Gould, meanwhile, had concentrated his attention on the man who will actually rule Tibet until the new Dalai Lama reaches 18 (if he reaches it-Dalai Lamas often die of aconite in their buttered tea). Tibet's Regent, shy, ugly, runty, jug-eared Thup Ten Jampel Yishey Gyantsen, lives in one of Lhasa's best palaces, raises European flowers in his garden. To him, Agent Gould gave many presents from India's Viceroy Lord Linlithgow-a silver tea service, rifles, revolvers, a gramophone, a thermos flask, a signed photograph. Likewise, Agent Gould and his staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kokonor Kid | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...Dave in the Grand Ol' Opry Company are a half-dozen ensembles with sour-mash names like Fruit Jar Drinkers, Possum Hunters, Gully Jumpers, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys. Grand Ol' Opry is no ordinary hillbilly show. It is opportunity night for all the balladeers, jug players, mouth-organists, fiddlers, washboard knucklers, accordionists, comb-hummers, etc. It is a weekly fiesta, Southern style, for hill folk from the Great Smokies, croppers, tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opry Night | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Hustled to Magistrate Peter Abeles, Alexander pleaded guilty to a charge of cruelty to animals. For eight cats in the bag, he spent two nights in the jug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: In the Bag | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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