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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that article your Milwaukee correspondent says that the character "John Steele" in my play, To the End of Time, is John Lewis. I merely wish to say that I have no control over anybody's personal opinion. Nor is that particular feature in his report the one that motivates this letter. What I have in mind is a certain very important inaccuracy-albeit undoubtedly an inadvertent one-in your article: your correspondent said that I obtained my finances from the "antilabor overlords" of Milwaukee. That is not true even in the very slightest degree! And if ever it becomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...regards the statement that the Milwaukee critics "booted the play around." That is quite true-but there are several vital reasons for that which have absolutely nothing to do with the merits or demerits of the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...mention of the half-empty houses: both legitimate theatres in Milwaukee are huge 1,600-seat houses, and with very few exceptions, no attraction that plays Milwaukee can boast of even half-empty houses. A half-capacity audience in Milwaukee is a distinct compliment to a play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Wedding Bells. Only fault with this reasoning was that Son Carol refused to play. A year or so of training at Potsdam, a tutor in the person of Professor Nicholas Jorga, a dogged old National Democrat who was against virtually everything the Bratianus stood for-these put unexpected backbone into the young Prince. Mother Marie was too busy hatching plots to notice that Son Carol was developing a mind of his own. She had a first glimpse of Carol's stubbornness at the Court of the Tsar. She got a big dose of it when, in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...same time Carol began to try his hand at being a good parent. Father and son breakfasted together every morning. The King supervised the Crown Prince's education, made it a point to play with the boy as much as possible. As time went on Father won Son over completely-so completely that by last summer Mihai even accepted the friendship of Mme Lupescu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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