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Altogether the volume is an uncommonly interesting psychological document: touching, somehow admirable case history of an international vagabond, a semi-Dostoevskian, a naïve sophisticate and speculative researcher. It is also a huge chunk of undercured, surprisingly palatable ham. The author is nobody's fool, except perhaps (as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Born Lucky | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

"I Take This Woman"--and who wouldn't? But it is a bit more difficult to muster up any enthusiasm for the picture itself. The story revolves about the eternal "eternal triangle" which is not handled with enough verve to justify its lack of originality. The lady is in love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Movigoer | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

Most surprising information in Lost Atlantis is that believers in the theory are becoming more numerous, more scientific, and crankier. In France an Atlantean society split into two groups on theoretical questions about the make-up of the hypothetical continent, began disrupting each other's meetings with real tear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crank's Continent | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Leslie Banks is manly, earnest, and warm as the advocate of democracy. Theodore Newton is as grim, as honest, and as frigid as the role of the communist demands. Claudia Morgan is attractive and uneasy, and whether the uneasiness is in the actress or the character, it all contributes to...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

Christopher Morley's first 41 books have been notable for affable after-dinner humor, a slightly ponderous display of undergraduate learning, a unique brand of lecture-platform whimsy. His 42nd, The Trojan Horse, is a scrambled modernization of the tale of Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Morley's Revisions | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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