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Europe is "a baby in its cor--rather a repulsive and fretful brat." Its whims, according to Mr. Douglas, have doomed whatever pretenisons it may ever have had. England in particular is lost: her morals and manners, government and social institutions are all presented in the cold and keenly satiric...

Author: By R.n.c. Jr., | Title: The Decline of the West | 10/30/1930 | See Source »

Three years ago George Antheil, Trenton (N. J.)-born composer arrived home from Paris, presented in Manhattan a program of his works which included Ballet Méchanique, scored for ten pianos, xylophones, rattles and whistles. Ballet Méchanique had a frosty reception. Critics hooted and Composer Antheil returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Peevish Opera | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

Events of the week in Moscow were both comforting and disheartening to believers in God. Comforting was the issuance by the Communist central committee of a ukase which: 1) Expressly forbade the closing of churches except by majority demand of the local population involved; 2) Insisted that the collectivization of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Day of Prayer | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

Dangerous Paradise (Paramount). In the masthead of this film the producers announce that it is "based on incidents from a novel by Joseph Conrad," a guarded statement obviously intended to divert the criticism which, based on incidents from Dangerous Paradise, would be leveled at them if they admitted that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 3, 1930 | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

The effect of the story is gigantically satiric. But Author Dos Passes has let his book speak for itself: it is not in the material but in his arrangement of it that the artist shows his hand. Author Dos Passes thinks of himself as an historian, tries to give an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Growth of a Nation | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

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