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Word: themes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exigencies of the theatre. This devotion to accuracy, however laudable, tends to produce a play which allows its narrative overmuch attention with a consequent vitiation of dramatic vitality. The core of the drama is inevitably the love story of Parnell and Kate O'Shea and this central theme might bear a more profound treatment than Mrs. Shauffier has accorded it. Nonetheless, the story has such merits of its own that mere dramatization suffices to make it an absorbing theatrical experience if not a play of permanent importance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 6/3/1936 | See Source »

...open grave in Gräfelfing cemetery near Munich. Massed behind him were most of Germany's Nazi bigwigs. The Realmleader had come to bury his chauffeur, Julius Schreck, 32, dead of inflammation of the brain. The service was brief, manly, preacherless. A Nazi philosopher orated on the theme, "Let the furies of hell battle against me; I will ride through death and the devil." Instead of a psalm, the mourners sang Though All Should Prove Unfaithful, anthem of Nazidom's elite Schutzstaffel (Black Shirts), whose chief job is to guard Adolf Hitler. Schutzstaffel Chief Heinrich Himmler made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Chauffeur to Valhalla | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE-Margery Allingham - Double day, Doran ($2). Author Allingham's characters are conventional murder-story puppets but by skillful pace, dialog, detail, she makes a commonplace theme into a specious and entertaining yarn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: May 18, 1936 | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...theme-song" type of broadcast (Fear, Hope, Hatred, etc.), which he employs upon occasion, packs an awful wallop. We deeply regret that atmospheric conditions will soon be such that many nights we shall have to retire without obtaining his clear, complete, nonpartisan, well interpreted picture of the day's news. Fifteen minutes with Paul Sullivan at the microphone seems to pass as quickly as a scared cat through a doorway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Most memorable achievement of the convention last week , was the ingenuity displayed by speakers in saying the same thing in different ways over & over again. Even the theme of most speeches was a repetition of last year's convention. If the Chamber really represented U. S. Business, it looked as if U. S. Business was, for once, in complete harmony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Roosevelts & Recriminations | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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