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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cats may look at kings, but extras rarely criticize producers. Recently, however, Manila's Philippines Free Press carried a disturbing communication from one of the 1,000 members of Los Angeles' Filipino colony who have been working on Producer Samuel Goldwyn's $2,000,000 epic of the Philippine pacification, The Real Glory. "This Hollywood idea," railed Mr. Goldwyn's Filipino, "of 60 Filipino soldiers being made to cower and shrink by one Juramentado [a Moro fanatic who expects heavenly reward in proportion to the number of Christians he kills] appears to some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Goldwyn's Filipinos | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...made himself one of the richest men in French Indo-China, M. Delaroch is content to enjoy the attentions of half-caste Manon de Vargnes (Hedy Lamarr), cares nothing about her ambition to escape to Paris and change herself into a Frenchwoman. When Bill takes a good look at Manon, jumps the yacht on which he has been a guest in order to marry her and help her change her life, M. Delaroch assumes a more active role. He blocks the Carey passports, lures Bill into the jungle, tries to teach Manon the virtues of passivity. But Manon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 28, 1939 | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...this comes true, the production index can look forward to a rise of only three to seven points compared to a 20-point rise from July to November last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Out of Pattern | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Pasturage for everybody began to look lusher a year ago. State laws had failed to bring order into the shed, but interstate control by the U.S. Department of Agriculture had ended price-cutting competition from the six outlying States. So last year New York State's dairy farmers held a referendum, voted to subject themselves to the Agricultural Marketing Agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Milk Without Honey | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...them to be sure to listen in. At Young & Rubicam's request, he bustled up to Manhattan two days before the scheduled broadcast, to show his stuff. In the agency's Madison Avenue skyscraper office, before a delegation of NBC officials, Mr. Klein, who at 37 still looks like Robert Taylor, fixed his fascinating eyes on a girl stenographer. -'You are going to sleep," said he, levelly, (ito sleep, to sleep. . . ." Sure enough, off she went. Mr. Klein turned to another girl-"sleep, sleep, s-l-e-e-p"-and off she went too. Then, magically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: S-L-E-E-P | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

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