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By the strict classifications of his strict and jealous calling Mystifier Dante is both a prestidigitator (he does sleight of hand) and an illusionist (he does tricks which require elaborate props to help the illusion). Pacing his illusions to the brassy blare of carnival music, Mystifier Dante whirled through an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Dante's Inferno | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

For Wolfe is the only real character in his posthumous novels. The others are props and foils, caught up and jolted into a semblance of animation by the Wolfian earthquake. Thomas Wolfe spent his short life trying to experience everything in the world with all five senses at once, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burning, Burning, Burning | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

For his Rousseau windows, which he had already tried out in Hollywood, Saks's perky window designer James David Buckley chose six typical lush, salad-like Rousseau paintings, reproduced them in life-sized scenes with the help of rag-doll manikins, props of paper, cloth and wood. Window Dresser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art for Window-shoppers | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

Captain Billy has a cast of eight blond, un-Spanish-looking members who wash decks, sell tickets, move props as well as sing, dance, feed lines to Captain Billy on & off stage. Carmen opens with all hands singing Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here. Carmen is Billy'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cincinnati's Carmens | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

In development of high-performance pursuit types, Sir Kingsley could, and did, justifiably take pride - a pride which he showed last week in the somewhat extravagant statement that he would pit a hun dred Spitfires or Hurricanes against a much larger number of German counterparts, which would mean Messerschmitt Me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Figures | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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