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...Martyr's Marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...Hollywood last year Director Wilcox made an appalling discovery-U. S. cinemaddicts had forgotten that Cinemactress Neagle was ever a chorus girl in Manhattan, thought of her as a royal senescent or a primly patriotic martyr. Wilcox determined to correct this misconception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...portal between Central and Western Europe; six miles east is Imperial Trèves (Trier to the Germans), from which the Romans ruled their Western Empire. Since Roman days no war in western Europe has passed Luxembourg by, and each war has given the country a new hero or martyr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUXEMBOURG: Ruffled Ruritcmia | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...first four stories are ancient history; 1) a martyred pathfinder, before 7000 B.C. prototype of Osiris, of Jesus, of the Artist; 2) a dim-witted burglar vivisected by Alexandrian scientists (Result: "We have now proved . . . that the arteries circulate air to the body from the lungs. ... It makes a man proud to be a doctor"); 3) Spartacus and his terrific slave revolt, disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Handbook of Bondage | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...years before getting anywhere. Even sweet bands like Sammy Kaye were broke, but didn't bellyache. The show business demands an eye for an eye, and Shaw, after having fired the musicians that stuck to him in the thin days, decided that the role of a Hamletian martyr committing public hari-kari was better than facing the music of a non-tinkling cash register...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

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