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It would be a good idea to sit through the even more venerable "The Bride Walks Out"; its completely dated gags and situations go far to point up the timelessness of the Barrie story. It is also interesting as a prematurely exhumed time-capsule of the early '30s, with their...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/29/1949 | See Source »

The dining room of Lowell House was transformed into the great hall of a Georgian palace last night, and in it I spent one of the most delightful evenings I can remember. The crystal chandeliers shone down on powdered wigs, hoop skirts, and velvet-coats, as the Lowell House Musical...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

St. Michael & the Zoot-Suits. Ash Wednesday Eve I drove through the most devastated streets of Munich, through rubble lanes barely wide enough for a car to pass, to a factory standing in darkness. We climbed a rickety outside stairs to a second-floor door that opened into a garish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Report from Munich | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Red-haired Ballerina-Cinemactress Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes) hustled offstage after a concert in Edinburgh and paid her respects to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh without stopping to change costume. She thus demonstrated beautifully that all curtseys to royalty should be executed by ballerinas in short ballet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Air Is Filled with Music | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

The First Communist. Father Molnar explained his peculiar faith to his visitors, just as his congregation was leaving his hilltop church, the women placid in bright calico skirts, the men proud in black Sunday suits and polished black boots. Father Molnar has built up an unreal paradoxical world in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Laudatur! | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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