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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then he has written a flop-Paradise Lost; a popular success that Hollywood paid $75,000 for-Golden Boy. Critics have spanked him. The public has often been exasperated and puzzled. But his position remains unchallenged. Critics, after filing their complaints, hastily add that Odets is his country's most promising playwright. Waiting for Lefty has circled the globe. Odets is still the White Hope, still Art, still News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: White Hope | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Odets defines the general fraud. It is the American dream, the Cinderella formula, the success story (presumably including his own). It is life as expressed in popular songs; it is Boy Meets Girl; it is Every Boy Can End Up in the White House. Hollywood is its chief dispenser. American men are its chief victims. As soon, says Odets, as an American man finds his dream girl has a blemish that wasn't in the song about her, he is through with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: White Hope | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...explain energy exchanges in the atomic nucleus. In honor of Yukawa, there is a tendency in Europe to call the particles yukons. The name barytron ("heavy particle") is gaining favor in the U. S. At the American Physical Society's convention in Chicago last week, barytrons were a popular subject of discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Neutretto | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...POPULAR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: December Records | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Puccini: La Bohème (Chorus and orchestra of the La Scala Opera Company, Umberto Berrettoni conducting, with Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese and other artists; Victor: 26 sides). Composer Puccini's most popular opera, with famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: December Records | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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