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During the last couple of years Hollywood movies have been getting worse and worse. Very few pictures are receiving the unequivocal praise which, at the beginning of the thirties, used to flow regularly from the pens of the critics, and box office receipts have fallen off decidedly. There can be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Morons | 10/28/1941 | See Source »

When the last check and double check had been marked, the chairmen hastily took up their pens and signed. A statement was issued by the U.S.-British delegations: "It now has been decided to place at the disposal of the Soviet Government practically every requirement for which the Soviet military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SUPPLY: Anti-Hitler Front | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born pianist and greatest living composer of light opera, is of an age which the swift and relentless stride of time has left alive only in memories. His name was greatest when whispered by ladies in ruffled hoop-skirts to frock-coated gentlemen seated next to them...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: "The Student Prince" | 10/7/1941 | See Source »

Climax of this historical build-up was a horrible example: the dismembered body of a comfortable old-fashioned overstuffed easy chair which lay behind the bars of a big animal cage under a life-size photograph of Gorilla Gargantua. Said an accompanying placard: "Cathedra gargantua, genus americanus. Weight when fully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sit-Down Show | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

> To Manila went 238 gilt jeweled watches (value: $3,022), 46 gold jeweled watches (value: $2,504), serum blood grouping, parts for pyrometer equipment, examination papers, 826 feet of motion-picture film, fountain pens and pencils, TIME magazine, shoe-machine awls and needles, Leghorn hatching eggs (to improve the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Strange Cargo | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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