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Word: themes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jitterbug," confessed the hit of the show as she was being thronged by autograph seekers after the rendition of her theme song, "Je vous aime beaucoup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Published by University Press Is Given Coveted Pulitzer History Prize | 5/2/1939 | See Source »

...site-a foul ash dump in Corona, L. I. which New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses had long itched to clean up. The original scheme was a fair the size of the Century of Progress. But with the Magnificent Whalen in the driver's seat and a flashy theme, "Building the World of Tomorrow," the budget mushroomed threefold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...unusually good. Even with Emily Bronte's subtle interweaving of incest here reduced to grim hints that flicker like summer lightning from afar, the film has caught that quality in the story that surpasses time or place. Tragedy, stark as the Yorkshire moors that are its scene, is the theme of "Wuthering Heights"; and not a punch has been pulled in Goldwyn's cinema version of this dank offshoot of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Especially convincing in the early scenes, Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier run the full course of Cathy's and Heathcliff's passion. Mr. Olivier is particularly good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: * The Moviegoer * | 4/27/1939 | See Source »

...more than their Bei Mir Bist Du Schön for same period. It reached fourth place in the Hit Parade. This week, just as the radio got wise, the Fishery Council New York and Middle-Atlantic Area Inc. decided to adopt Hold Tight as its theme song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hold Barred | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...point made by My Heart's in the Highlands is the old anti-Philistine insistence: that worldly success means nothing, that artistic failure means nothing, that what alone matters is man's vaulting imagination, his perdurable dream, the spiritual geography of his heart. On this theme Saroyan has composed the freest of fantasias, introducing rumbling chords of social protest, screwy dissonances, gaudy trills, touching pianissimos, mushy rubatos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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