Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussions of the American nations below the equator have stressed the point that they are blanketed with Italian and German short-wave propaganda, that the U. S. should fight propaganda with propaganda. Observer Kostelanetz verified the activity of totalitarian shortwavers, but pricked the balloon of their importance by reporting that short-wave listening in South America, even more than in the U. S., is an exacting hobby, available to relatively few people, of interest to even fewer. Said he: "In all of Brazil [pop. 47,795,000] there are only 420,000 radio sets, only 15% of them equipped...
Room Service, in its screen version, is open to criticism on one point. The Marxes have been playing as themselves too long to hope that the public will ever accept them as characters in somebody else's story. Captious critics may find that the resultant absence of illusion in Room Service impairs its hilarity. Loyal Marxists will find it well up to the standard of such predecessors as A Night at the Opera or A Day at The Races. Good shot: Harpo's happiness when the turkey, apparently gone for good, returns to roost nervously on a window...
...Hays censorship, perform it in their stride. Since there is nothing spectacularly bad about If I Were King, it will doubtless appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the cliché of modern fiction, social significance. Result: so wooden that even the clashing of swords suggests a xylophone...
After researching four representative U. S. families, LIFE invited top-flight architects to draw plans for them. From a lay point of view all eight houses appeared eminently practical and livable,* but in looks the moderns seemed to excel...
Women's Final. On the distaff side, the semi-final between Alice Marble (seeded second to Helen Jacobs) and crafty Sarah Palfrey Fabyan made up for the lacklustre men's matches. Playing her usual powerful but erratic game, onetime Champion Marble twice came within a point of defeat before taking the match, 5-7, 7-5, 7-5. Next day, playing against Nancye Wynne, 21-year-old Melbourne stenographer who had beaten California's Dorothy Bundy on her way to the final, Alice Marble needed just 22 minutes to win the championship...