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...Mice and Men (United Artists). This first John Steinbeck picture is U. S. amusement seekers' third exposure to his bleak account of manly affection between two bin die stiffs (tramps who tote their own blankets) on a California grain ranch. It was first a novel, then a Broadway play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...from pledged hotelmen, $250,000 more from San Francisco, city & county. Because the Fair's new managers think that they can carry the exposition over the winter and rehabilitate it in the spring with $1,600,000, and their expected assets in cash and accounts receivable tote up to $1,725,000, they last week announced that the Fair will try again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: 23 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

There are few comic concessions, but there is sly humor in Prissy 's (Butterfly McQueen) singing of Jes' a Few Mo' Days, Ter Tote de Weery Load. There is -sumptuous satire in the sets of the barbaric mansion, the realization of all Scarlett's ideals, in which Rhett and Scar lett enshrine their garish passion. In contrast, sudden lyrical shots lighten the cinemagnificence. Technicolor (using a new process) has never been used with more effective restraint than in Gone With the Wind. Exquisite shot: Gerald O'Hara silhouetted beside Scarlett against the eve ning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

What was going on at Crosley Field was of prime importance not only to gravediggers but to practically every one of Cincinnati's 450,000 citizens. Businessmen carried radios to their offices, golfers had caddies tote portables along with their clubs. For the Cincinnati Reds ("Our Boys" to baker and banker alike) were in the throes of their first pennant in 20 years and, like an expectant father, the whole town stood nervously by. At Crosley Field, in what oldtime ballplayers used to call a "crucial serious," Our Boys were playing the Cardinals-the swaggering, slugging Gas House Gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Red Victory | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Last week the Kansas kite builder got an order for some more of his quantity-produced flying machines. The U. S. Army bought a half-million dollars' worth* of Martin 167 attack bombers, two-engine ships that can streak through the air at 360 m.p.h., tote a ton of bombs, maneuver against the nimblest pursuit ship in the air. It was no two-bit order, but it was not big enough to give pleasure to Glenn Luther Martin. He had hoped to fill the $15,000,000 bomber order which the War Department simultaneously placed with his big competitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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