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...sceneryless stage, which for a while scared stage designers as a nudist epidemic would scare dressmakers. It fully justified itself by making Julius Caesar timeless in its meaning, by giving Our Town the universality of Everytown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Exit Smiling | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

...Tucson, only far-Western city to object, the publisher of the Arizona Star sold 25 copies of LIFE over his own counter in defiance of the police. The Memphis Press-Scimitar contrasted the local ban on LIFE with open sale at the same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though William Jay Schieffelin, vice president of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, thought "LIFE rendered a public service by picturing in a decent way the facts about the birth of a baby which every child should know," New York State's Knights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Facts of LIFE | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Lopez' crusade had the enthusiastic support of D. A. R. President-General Mrs. William A. Becker. But Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, prominent anti-nudist, who helped to make the Star-Spangled Banner the official as well as actual national anthem, was scandalized, threatened to picket the theatre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Squeakless Anthem | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...were respectable anthropoid apes catching your first glimpse of a specimen of man, your modesty would be shocked by the spectacle of his obscene nakedness. Indeed, even to man himself it is a well-nigh insupportable sight, unless he be a savage devoid of culture, or a nudist devoid of sensibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hooton's Horrors | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Youngest, most eccentric in the year's rash of musical moppets is Chicago's David ("Dudy") Davis, 6, a violinist being kept under cover for later, safer release. A raw-vegetarian and nudist, Dudy is taken to school bundled in a large cape, stripped down to a loin cloth when he practices. Even so, he is sometimes too hot, and cries: "I'm sweating bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prodigies | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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