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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characteristic British "refusal to be moved attitude," we all changed for dinner, although it meant sitting in a very cool sitting-room afterwards, without a fire and washing in a pitch dark bathroom, as they had not gotten their curtains back from the cleaners and we couldn't show a light. (Curse Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week all was beauty, bustle and boom at the National Automobile Show in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 16). But at the automobile capital, Detroit, there was trouble and promise of more to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moonshine & Camouflage | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Arthur Siegel of the Traveler: "Harvard is a slight favorite, but the choice is on possibilities rather than results. . . . The Crimson will show power, but as usual couple this with guile. . . . Penn has more experienced players...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five of the Quaker Stars for Today's Game | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...screen. Heifetz and more Heifetz, superbly recorded, is the main element of this film; all others are kept subordinate. And yet, the theme of a children's music school struggling to get along, though it sounds impossible, provides a moderately interesting plot. It also affords the chance to show off some truly remarkable child musicians and singers, of a breed quite distinct from Shirley Temple. A lad with a strikingly handsome face, Gene Reynolds, turns in one of the best juvenile performances to be seen of late. Joel McCrea and Andrea Leeds are in evidence too, but their duties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...very interesting shots of pre-sound direction, the rest of the picture is taken up with a verbose plot about a director and his star. Alice Faye and Don Ameche do the best they can, but "Hollywood Cavalcade" is primarily a historical document, and, as such, is a fine show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

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