Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While U. S. audiences are likely to doubt whether Folies Bergere, derived from a minor Hungarian play called The Red Cat (TIME, Oct. 1), justified such elaborate preparations, they are likely to find it an agreeable and handsomely arranged example of its type. Between the big "production numbers" at the start and finish, it sandwiches in a brisk little backstage-&-bedroom farce based on the resemblance of a song-&-dance man in the "Folies Bergere" to a celebrated financier...
...entire floor of Rome's modernistic Ministry of Corporations clatters all day with the ordered bedlam of statistical machines. Last week they rang up a total of exactly 155,518 Italians re-employed since Oct. 16 as a direct result of an experiment begun that day by the Corporative State...
...front there will be less competition. Lovers of American Weekly's gaudiness will find little to excite them in This Week. Printed in color gravure, This Week is edited by Mrs. William Brown Meloney, genteel white-haired editor of the New York Herald Tribune's magazine (TIME, Oct. 8). First issue includes fiction by Sinclair Lewis, Rupert Hughes, Fannie Hurst; articles by Britain's Lord Strabolgi, Scientist Roy Chapman Andrews, Artist Neysa McMein -big names which the average individual Sunday newspaper could not conveniently...
...London-to-Melbourne air race which Sir MacPherson Robertson, Australian candy tycoon, backed with ?15,000 was supposed to demonstrate the superiority of British planes, of which one came in first (TIME, Oct. 29). But U. S. planes averaged best. To impress this superiority upon South America-and also, for the usual goodwilling-Elliott Roosevelt, 24, has lately been promoting an 18,500-mi. air derby round North & South America, to be directed by onetime Cavalryman Hugh Samuel Johnson...
Volumes III and IV of Douglas Freeman's four-decker definitive life of Robert E. Lee carry on from the aftermath of Chancellorsville and the death of "Stonewall" Jackson (TIME, Oct. 22) to the old age and final illness of the Confederate generalissimo. When the South collapsed at Appomattox, Lee was already suffering from a complicated heart and artery disorder that was never properly diagnosed. But he had a living to make, and he set out to make it. The Northern victory had wiped out his $20,500 in Confederate and Carolina bonds. His lot in Washington had been...