Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olsen has put his finger squarely on one of the tender spots in book-publishing, bookselling and book-page-editing. With its sales-figures reports from bookstores, TIME can manage the cold truth, though not weekly. Newspaper book-pages must rely on impressions served up as facts by worried booksellers who, only human, may sometimes let the wish father the thought. Might not TIME at its convenience poll a) book-publishers, b) booksellers, c) book-editors to ascertain whether they do not, like Pearl Buck, regard this best-seller business as half nuisance and half outright thimbleriggery...
...Really I do not care about those false statements," wrote Jan Bat'a. "I am only curious to see whether there is still someone in Germany today with the courage to place truth above lying propaganda. I would not be ashamed to be a Jew despite all the attacks of the German press. I would feel equal with all people...
Died. Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky (real name: Alexeyev), 75, great Russian stage director; of heart disease; in Moscow. Co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and its director ever since, he revolted against classical conventions, emphasized realism, truth, emotional sincerity, charged his actors to "live the part every moment." He was equally proficient as actor, author (An Actor Prepares, My Life and Art), teacher and philosopher. Once he summed up: "My work with the artist is to open his eyes to . . . those things that must be developed out of his own soul." Died. Edmund Charles Tarbell, 76, portrait painter...
...says 'Beware!' I advise you not to strike at the Catholic Action associations. I advise and beseech you not to do so, for your own good, because whoever strikes at the Catholic Action associations strikes at the Pope, and whoever strikes at the Pope dies. This is truth and history proves...
...prestige, directors acquire specialties. Capra's is a certain kind of peculiarly American, peculiarly kinetic humor, in which the most individual characteristic is an extraordinarily adroit and constant use of "business" to accent the comic line. Unlike Gregory La Cava (Stage Door) or Leo McCarey, whose The Awful Truth took top honors for direction at the Academy this year, Capra has no interest in jokes whose appeal is touched with neuroticism. He is sufficiently versatile to have made a successful picture from a story as fantastic as James Hilton's Lost Horizon. But as a master of pace...