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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schoolmaster Taussig" is an early story of Neumann's, a grim naturalistic sex tragedy considerably more effective than "King Haber", though much cruder and more exaggerated. "The Patriot", familiar to movie fans as one of Emil Jannings best pictures, stands out as the most skillfully handled and the most appealing of the three stories. The gradual development of the conspiracy against the mad Czar Paul, the struggles of Count Pahlen against external opposition and against his self-accusations of ungratefulness, are told with careful objectivity, yet with a much finer dramatic sense than appeared in "King Haber". "The Patriot...

Author: By R. W. P., | Title: BOOKENDS | 6/3/1930 | See Source »

Blinking glowing eyes, one red, one green, Mr. Televox who was, of course, a robot replied: "Is Sex Necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Book War | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

Ruth Hale, head of the Lucy Stone League, recently made the following statement: "Unless man recedes from his present position to readjust life on the basis of sex equality of might, he will be completely overcome.... Our fight is already won. Very soon the enemy will find himself prone with the steel at his throat...Procreation, the power to reproduce the human species, is the world's most potent power, and it is 75 percent women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 25 PERCENT INSIGNIFICANT | 5/28/1930 | See Source »

...Divorcee (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Whether the success of Ex-Wife, the novel from which this picture is adapted, was due to its frankness on sex, or to a certain distinct and half-naive pathos in its sophisticated affectations, will make little difference to people who see The Divorcee. The film accurately reproduces all the qualities of the book, including its disorder and its occasional approach to burlesque, but Norma Shearer's beauty makes it worth watching in spite of mediocre dialog. It concerns a young couple whose happiness was disrupted because they had a habit of confessing their in fidelities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 26, 1930 | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

LYSISTRATA?Aristophanes' satirical suggestion that the way to stop war is to sex-starve the soldiery. Fay Bainter and Ernest Truex the opposite sides of the argument (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Table: May 26, 1930 | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

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