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...Sally, Irene, and Mary," now at the Metropolitan, Alice Faye and Tony Martin rub noses, Fred Allen climbs a lamp post, Joan Davis goes into unbelievable contortions while tap dancing, and Jimmy Durante, back in films with his cigar and his proboscis, does his traditional "Again-You Turn-a" dance. A hodge-podge of the craziest situations Director William Seiter could throw together, the film makes no sense whatever; but it does succeed in being mildly amusing and sometimes very funny, which is all that was ever intended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

...Elmont, L. I., John Hecker went to spend the night with his friend John Jackson. Guest Hecker, to provide better light, set an oil lamp on a stove. It exploded. Host Jackson, to put out the fire, emptied a gallon jar on the flames. It contained kerosene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1938 | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

Died. Charles Q. Eldredge, 92, world traveler, founder of the Eldredge Free Private Museum; after long illness; in Old Mystic, Conn. His museum contains 7,000 curiosities-among them Thomas A. Edison's first incandescent lamp, a hammer from Abraham Lincoln's Kentucky home, a cannon ball Mr. Eldredge firmly believed to be the first fired against Fort Sumter, an 8½-lb. petrified oyster, a piece of wood from the Confederate gunboat Merrimac. In 1933 he advertised for sale "a fully equipped museum, an honor to any town or city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...Managing Editor F. W. Beckman in touch with his readers. A sort of countrified Delineator, the Farmer's Wife carries plenty of fiction, but not by big names. There is lots of advice on how to run a Halloween party, make clothes, improve the appearance of a kerosene lamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Farmer's Wife | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Supreme Court convention places the most recent appointee to the bench at the chair farthest to the left of the Chief Justice, who sits in the middle. Since 1916, Justice Brandeis' old bronze reading lamp has gradually moved closer to the centre. Now the oldest Justice on the Court, he sits on the left hand of snowy-bearded Charles Evans Hughes, who Brandeis privately tells friends is the best Chief Justice he has known. Since 1916, nothing closer to a further questioning of Justice Brandeis' fitness as a member of the Court has occurred than the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Old Men, New Battles | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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