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Prentice-Hall have good reason to be half out of their minds. As a novel, The Miracle of the Bells is one of the worst ever published; as a business proposition it has cornered the schmaltz market and provides a role for every star in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dunnigan's Wake | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Unhampered by the plethora of schmaltz that dogs many similar American efforts, MGM's Swiss-imported "The Last Chance" well deserves the title of the most intelligent non-documentary film to come out of this war. There have been more complex plots, more natural dialogues, and more starting acting, but the powerful impact of "The Last Chance" makes a good many box office smashes look somewhat green around the gills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/19/1946 | See Source »

...Mencken) was a rich caricature of a corrupt and ranting preacher (as he might appear to the village atheist). In The Man Who Knew Coolidge, a superb tour de force, Lewis used his remarkable talent for mimicking U.S. speech to let George F. Babbitt (this time called Lowell Schmaltz) reveal the mind, manners and morals of Babbitry in Babbitt's native tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laureate of the Boobolsie | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

Funderberg finally went off to Europe, where he was shot down, captured and later released. He came home and married a widow named Mrs. Schmaltz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Incident in New Canaan | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Born. To David Rubinoff, 47, schmaltz king of the fiddle, now on a concert and bond-selling tour of U.S. schools; and his second wife, Mertice Dean Rubinoff, 30; their first (his second) child, a son; in Wichita Falls, Tex. Name: Ruben. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 16, 1944 | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

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