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...Heiress (adapted from Henry James's Washington Square by Ruth & Augustus Goetz; produced by Fred F. Finklehoffe) turns a well-nigh perfect novel into a very imperfect but highly interesting drama. That is no trifling feat, for the novel is not very dramatic. Mr. & Mrs. Goetz give the story more kick by settling for less art. At their worst, they are not so much collaborating with Henry James as colliding with him; but on the whole they do a good job. Famed Director Jed Harris (Broadway, The Front Page, Our Town) does a better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

More & more Europeans have become convinced that the road back for their continent lies through Germany. The Germans themselves are not looking that far ahead. They are bitter, cynical, well-nigh hopeless. Berlin Correspondent Percy Knauth last week cabled glimpses of the German scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Road Back? | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Sally Rand, well-nigh immortal fandangler, sponsored a scholarship at the University of Illinois, handed a $1,000 check to its temporary custodian, Harold ("Red") Grange, football's famed Galloping Ghost of the early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Old Gang | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Peace is upon us, and Christmas is nigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Hatchet Buried | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...produced by Nelson L. Gross & Daniel Melnick) is the third of handsome Negro Choreographer Katherine Dunham's "revues" and, like her Tropical Revue and Carib Song, is really an evening of dancing. Miss Dunham has a well-nigh unapproached knowledge of the exotic dances of the West Indies and the Caribbean, which she has recreated in forms of her own. Bal Nègre offers a variety of them that, from a theater standpoint, seems badly lacking in variety. On its own terms, however, Bal Nègre often has a good deal of color and excitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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