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Supplementary to his main theme of disillusionment are random bits of history, thumbnail sketches of military dictators whom he interviewed briefly, many an anecdote: of a brief but bloody revolution in Quito where the scattered human remains were collected by garbage trucks hurriedly daubed with Red Crosses; of an escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: South American Jitters | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

"The Awful Truth" depicts Irene Dunne's futile attempt to divorce Cary Grant and win the custody of "Mr. Smith," a canine known as "Skippy" in private life. The interlocutory decree is granted, and "Mr. Smith" is treated with all the consideration recently shown Miss Gloria Vanderbilt, but Cupid has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Last week's blackface Otello, veteran Giovanni Martinelli, could have won his audience without the smash-clapping and howling of the inevitable claque. Elisabeth Rethberg (Desdemona) substituted massively for Eide Norena, who was ill. Long-legged, snub-nosed Lawrence Tibbett (lago) acted so enthusiastically he almost made a home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Met | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

Last week, with the need for discretion terminated, Churchman Guthrie with his penetrating eyes twinkling beneath his feral eyebrows, told a reporter: "There is no God. There never was." This he proceeded to qualify in the veiled words which had made him, if not the greatest U. S. religious mystic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: O Beautiful | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

¶ Most important Metropolitan debutant was German Heldentenor Carl Hartmann, who had made previous U. S. appearances with the German Opera Company in 1931. As principal protagonist in one of the finest Siegfrieds in decades, long-legged, prancing Hartmann acted his role as though he were living it, sang and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Opera | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

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