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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mr. Ryder is the mother of the bird. (See mother-bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...Munich, Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Hitler very ably appeased each other. Mr. Chamberlain by giving in, Mr. Hitler by declaring his good intentions. The big unsettled question about President Roosevelt's business-appeasement policy is whether it is the Chamberlain or Hitler kind. Last week it looked more like the Hitler kind when the head of the Federal Reserve Board, Marriner Eccles (the New Deal's prime advocate of spending for recovery), appeared before a Senate committee and gave Congress a lusty double dare. He challenged it to try economy. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Double Dare | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...member of the cast last year I can safely say that this is untrue. Mr. Lilley has made the show as nearly professional as possible. I suppose this is what is meant when your reviewer says it is "too-beautiful" and "too-perfect." This is neither a fault nor a violation of the "spirit of college theatricals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

...show has its faults but few of them--I might almost say none of them--are the fault of its director. No, the "ungrateful criticism" is by no means a reflection on anyone but the reviewer. David C. Rivinus '40 (Ed. Note: The reviewer was unacquainted with Mr. Lilley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

...Orage"--now at the Fine Arts--attains dramatic excellence through masterful use of simple, intrinsically unprepossessing material. In the hands of Warner Brother and Kay Francis--perish the thought!--it would probably have been trite and dull, for the plot concerns merely the tragic love of a marries man (Mr. Boyer) and a tempestuous, delicate, passionate femme du monde (Michele Morgan). But the vehicle is unimportant; around the character of Francoise--portrayed by Miss Morgan with an almost psychological profundity amazing for her seventeen years--the interest is centered. Not beautiful except in certain poses, she is nevertheless very appealing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/30/1939 | See Source »

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