Word: naturedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not this literary travail would eventually bring forth a few small mountains or a mammoth mouse, the first U. S. guides evoked far more literary enthusiasm than official publications usually raise. Said Critic Lewis Mumford as the first volumes appeared, "These guidebooks are the finest contribution to American...
Sh! the Octopus (First National). Hugh Herbert and Allen Jenkins as a pair of dimwit sleuths come to death-grips in a lighthouse with an underworld menace known as The Octopus. Lost documents, a character using a hook instead of a hand, secret stairways, octopus tentacles and poison gas are...
Few U. S. entertainers have ever had the success on Continental stages of honey-skinned, good-natured Josephine Baker. Born in St. Louis 30-odd years ago of an allegedly white father & a colored washerwoman, Josephine's education stopped with grade school. At the age of 14 she was...
The Cradle Will Rock (music and words by Marc Blitzstein; presented by the Mercury Theatre). To John Houseman and Orson Welles, the producers of Julius Caesar (TIME, Nov. 22), Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock is an old problem. They tried to produce it in Manhattan last June...
The Author. "Inviting Stuart Cloete to dinner," complains his novelist-friend, E. Arnot Robinson, "one is never quite sure whether one will get the ex-Coldstream Guards' officer . . . who has a disconcerting habit of saying 'Good show' when he means 'How nice,' or whether the...