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Winnie Winkle the Breadwinner got on a bus one day last month, and for eight days readers of the Chicago Tribune and 140 other newspapers followed Cartoonist Martin Michael Branner's heroine through a series of depressing experiences. She was annoyed by a traveling salesman, bored by a Shakespearean ham, sprawled over by a yokel couple. Many a reader guessed that Cartoonist Branner had gone somewhere on a bus and hadn't liked it much...
...there first, for the name Covent Garden derives from an old convent garden which occupied the site in the days of many-wived King Henry VIII. Centuries later, in 1732, one John Rich built a theatre where the Royal Opera House now stands. In it appeared such famous Shakespearean actors as Charles Kemble, Edmund Kean, Charles Macready, Fanny Kemble. In it German...
Until shortly before its release on the eve of Lincoln's Birthday, Of Human Hearts had been called Benefits Forgot, a title lifted from Shakespeare's wintry hyperbole on man's ingratitude.* But even Shakespearean titles sometimes lack the necessary box-office smash to put across a photoplay that has no top-ranking box-office names. Late last month MGM ran a radio contest for a new title, paid a $5,000 prize to 17-year-old Roy Harris of Greenville, S. C. The investment produced wide publicity and a title near enough Of Human Bondage (TIME...
Education's Thorndike. The record of the Thorndike family confirms his own emphasis on the importance of heredity. His late brother Ashley was one of the foremost U. S. Shakespearean scholars. Another brother, Lynn, is an authority on medieval history, his sister (now retired) was a brilliant high-school teacher. Of his four children, three are college teachers and the fourth an undergraduate, all unusual scholars...
Funniest scenes: Actor Howard shocking a stuffy breakfast group with a Shakespearean outburst on an improperly cooked kipper; Comic Blore trying to signal his master by frantic birdcalls, over determined competition from a nearby aviary...