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Broken by the first separation in their 50 years of marriage, Barkley and Lucy make bad visitors. Lucy interferes with her daughter-in-law's bridge parties. Barkley gets in wrong with Cora. When the children decide, as an alternative arrangement, to send their father to a daughter who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

"The selection of [starred] names," wrote Dr. Schrader, "is made on a basis that is not very clear to me, and I doubt that it is well defined in the mind of the editor himself. ... I regard these elections ... as a somewhat childish albeit amusing pastime, but I understand that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stars Flayed | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

The Warner Bros, junior cinemusical company has a picnic with the slapdash, rapid lines, but there is nothing slapdash about the glittering specialties or the skilful, engaging music. Top song and top production number: Too Marvelous for Words. Swing High, Swing Low (Paramount) reveals the effects of outrageous fortune'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 22, 1937 | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

Marcel Duchamp has hardly painted a picture since. Carrying French cynicism to almost pathological lengths, he entered a shovel in an art exhibition at the Bourgeois Gallery in 1917 with an elaborate essay on its artistic worth, later bought a bird cage, filled it with lumps of marble, called it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cubism to Cynicism | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Into an operating room of Manhattan's gorgeous Doctors Hospital famed diagnostician Henry Harlow Brooks, rotund and haggard, was wheeled last Sunday. Long a professor in New York University Medical College, unusually skilful in the treatment of heart disease, Dr. Brooks, 65, had just returned to Manhattan from Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor's Doctors | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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