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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...realists held their first show in 1908. Last week he summed himself up: "I never thought of one of my good pictures as art while painting it. Whether it was art or not, it was what I wanted to do. . . . I am grateful to have lived this long and look forward to more years of hard work. I am just a student, chewing on a bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Unbuttoned Painter | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...maternal grandparents after his shamed mother leaves town, little David finds out what he is when he is knocked down, kicked and called a bastard on his first day at school. When he is 18, his embittered grandfather dies, leaving him $500 and some advice: "Don't look for happiness, there isn't any such thing. Above all, don't expect it from women, they can't give what they haven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Full Circle | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Protesting a 30-day sentence for drunkenness in a San Francisco, Calif, court, Frank Owen waved a blueprint, shouted: "Look, judge, I've invented a submarine that will control the world. I've got a date at the Federal building. . . . Thousands of lives will be lost." Said the judge: "All right, get out and save the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...course, America would look sorrowfully on any sort of German victory, and she should do what is in her power--short of war--to ensure an opposite result. Any Nazi success means an upsurge of this political and social creed, which would certainly be felt in the United States. But Mr. Greene has little faith in the virility of democracy and in American integrity if he considers this an overwhelming threat. And surely he will not proceed to the ridiculous argument of actual Nazi aggression on American soil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREENE PASTURES | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...Hollywood assembly line have come two pictures that are now serving their time at the University, "The Angels Wash Their Faces," and "Hotel For Women." The motion picture industry, wondering what has caused the stagnation in box office during the past few years, might well look into those two pictures and see the reason why. Each was carried out with technical skill, with good direction and good pacing, with reasonably capable casts. Yet they lacked one essential element--originality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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