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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco had a similar fiesta prior to the opening of the Golden Gate International Exposition. .. . There were more sore faces per San Franciscan than possibly in the whole U. S. and after the fiesta was over, barbers did a land-office business getting faces and hair back into shape again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...what will be the American premiere of Emlyn Williams' romantic comedy, "He Was Born Gay", the Harvard Dramatic Club is rounding into shape its fifty-eighth production. The amusing drama of Napolconic England will be presented at the Peabody Playhouse in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Prepares to Present "He Was Born Gay" | 4/25/1939 | See Source »

With the goddess, Iris, careening, in on roller skates and a chorus, grotesquely masked in ancient Greek dramatic fashion "trucking" out to the tune of modern Jazz-blues, the 20th century A.D. and the 5th century B.C. join hands as the Harvard Classical Club whips into final shape its presentation of Aristophanes' fantasy. "The Birds" to be given Friday and Saturday evening at 8 o'clock in Sanders Theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chorus Trucks, Swings as Classical Club Portrays Aristophanes' "Birds" | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...have been working outdoors since vacation and are slowly getting organized. The Freshman defense held quite consistently during the match, but the attack was somewhat wavering and ill-tinied. Witherspoon's men face one of the hardest schedules in recent years and are bonding every effort to whip into shape as soon as possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team takes Tufts 10-0 in Home Season Opener | 4/20/1939 | See Source »

...HOLY TERROR-H. G. Wells-Simon & Schuster ($2.75). Most of H. G. Wells's 80 books have pictured the shape of things to come; if nobody knows what the future holds, it is not his fault. In The Holy Terror he sees the same old Wellsian future: the final World War, a world dictatorship, and at last, off in the misty distance, the World State. Many an oldster bores mankind about the past; in The Holy Terror, Wells manages to be dull about things that have not even happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Novels | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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