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One unfortunate prisoner who had had some unpleasant dealings with the ball commissioner the night of his arrest was chagrined to discover that his adversary had metamorphosed into the Clerk of Court.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smith College Fans Given Various Traffic Penalties | 5/6/1941 | See Source »

The common report on the two new recordings of the "Eroica" is unfortunately true. Toscanini's performance on Victor, exciting as it is, suffers dreadfully from the poor acoustics of the NBC studio, where it was recorded during the Beethoven cycle last year. The studio is probably more satisfactory for...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 4/25/1941 | See Source »

This isn't a bad skeleton, but it is so over-simplified in its development that you feel it never achieves full body. If Miss Treadwell had devoted more of her imagination to a revelation of the inner conflict between hope and defeat, and less to a chronicling of life...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

The popularity of such sustained mayhem has been thoroughly tested: this is the sixth cinema version of the Jack London novel in 30 years. To man the unpleasant cast (only woman is Ida Lupino), the ranks of Hollywood hoodlums were culled for such experienced mischief-makers as Edward G. Robinson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 14, 1941 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

Words of woe came from the totalitarian front. Although the Italian press buried the news of the bill's passage, it began an anti-U.S. campaign which increased in intensity as the days went by. "Roosevelt's gesture," pontificated Virginio Gayda, "which means open intervention in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The World and H. R. 1776 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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