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...majority of the anthracite miners opposed it then, vowed they would never pay it. They were outvoted by the more numerous bituminous-coal workers, traditionally loyal to Lewis. To the hard-coal workers, this meant placing additional millions from their own slim pay checks at the disposal of Absentee Landlord Lewis. They bided their time, and when the checkoff came, they struck. It was as simple as that, and as complex...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: John Lewis Fights a Strike | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Aherne has a small, dull part and is, as a result, of little interest. Rosalind Russell, more attractive in many respects than Janet Blair, is for some odd reason overlooked by all the men until she finally gets Aherne. George Tobias plays a skillful Appopoulos, the loquacious landlord with an enlarged idea of his artistic abilities. The film's continual helter-skelter action makes most of the actors first-class candidates for an asylum, but it's only a story and as such is good entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/13/1942 | See Source »

...those rabbits. Mouth open, one paw up, great big eyes, little impressionists running all over the theatre. Take one home in your pocket. What if that sissy, Bambi, is a bore? What if mother-love, the Cruelty of Man, the Landlord of the Forest, and other miscellaneous nineteenth century melodrama are overdone until they become a lush mush? These are Disney's incorrigible faults, but they are well worth suffering or sleeping through for a glimpse of a lop-cared bunny yelling like hell as he slides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/23/1942 | See Source »

Till Death Us Do Part. In Cairo, on complaint of a landlord, a U.S. Army officer was arrested for driving his jeep upstairs to his second-floor apartment every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...mistakes the bars of their window for a comfort station. A seasonally unemployed professional footballer sleeps in their kitchenette to avoid his mother-in-law. Sister Ruth interests a magazine editor (Brian Aherne) in her copy and person. Sister Eileen innocently entices into their manic ménage their landlord (George Tobias), a Harpo-Marxian painter with delusions of genius; the Harold-Teenish manager of a drugstore; a crafty reporter (Allyn Joslyn); six lighthearted cadets from the Portuguese merchant marine. Eileen's global charms inspire the sailors to do a mass conga that lands her in jail. At last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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