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...Lightnin', wave after wave of purest hokum sweeps across the stage, but so candidly that nobody minds. Famed Hoofer Fred Stone (Montgomery & Stone) proved himself a winning character actor, brought to the title role made famous by Frank Bacon if not the same homely vigor, a sly and childlike charm. Lightnin', as Actor Stone-borrowing an old line of his-remarked in his curtain speech, is a play "to which children can safely bring their parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Old Play in Manhattan: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

...Association of Electricizers, the children were quarreling and no one in the Temple was working. The Machine was a complicated tangle of magnets, coils and rods. "Good 'Lantic Ocean," ejaculated the neighbors, "what a contraption!" James Prince's notion was to have Dinah, the Temple's purest virgin, conceive immaculately a spiritual impulse to set the Machine working. After nine months of elaborate preparation Dinah, mesmerized on a bench beside the Machine, went through the agonies of birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Table-Rapping Utopia | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...became a U. S. leader. With a shotgun over his shoulder and a bottle of whiskey in his pocket, he led citizens in keeping order after the Galveston hurricane of 1900. At a public dinner, when addressed in Hebrew by the late Cardinal Satolli, apostolic delegate, he replied in purest ecclesiastical Latin. The U. S. Post Office department became used to routing to Galveston all letters addressed to "Rabbi Henry Cohen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Henry Cohen | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Friends, an immediate succour for this, my treasure! Procure me now, obtain me now, fragrant scent, purest balsam, with speed of lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Operas in English | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Hung on opposite walls are masterpieces of the painter's early and middle styles: Lady at the Piano, painted in 1879, an example of the purest Renoir radiance, and Mine Renoir Nursing Pierre, in which the artist used flat, dry colors and a linear definition of forms very different from the technique by which he is commonly known. The same room contains a bronze relief, done in 1914, of a painting. The Judgment of Paris, done in 1908 and now the property of Actor Charles Laughton. Racked by arthritis during the last 20 years of his life, Renoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Summer Renoir | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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