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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, its Abingdon season over, the Barter Theatre paid its third annual visit to Manhattan. In chain-store-fed Manhattan there were nine cash customers to one barterer. But the box office accepted a gallon of wine, tubes of toothpaste, some rayon underwear, size 36 and from Drama Critic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Actors and Hams | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Journey's End (by R. C. Sherriff; produced by Leonard Sillman). Broadway's 1939-40 season opened last week extremely late but extremely aptly: with a revival of one of the two most famous plays (the other: What Price Glory?) about World War I. But despite its timeliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Play in Manhattan: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

"You could have knocked me over with a wooden tee," chuckled Golfer Nelson.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unwiitting Lady | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Captain Borkowski, who had wept with his officers as they embraced him and said goodby, collected his 25 pieces of luggage, including a mattress and a mariner's clock, hung his marine glasses over one shoulder, hitched a leather brief case up under an arm, and with a raincoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ship Without a Country | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Little Sisters today maintain 307 old people's homes throughout the world. The 52 U. S. homes care for 50,000 oldsters-men & women over 60, of all faiths. Upon entering a home, inmates surrender their belongings, if any, to the order, thus become members of a "Little Family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Little Sisters | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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