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...There, on Easter, they will gather round the tree and listen to numerous complimentary speeches from U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels and Mexican dignitaries. They will present a gold medal to Señor LeBlanc, a gold medal to Mr. Schmidt. To the music of Mexican bands they will unveil a tablet, suitably inscribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Sturdy Avocado | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Something to Sing About (Grand National) is nothing to make a song about, but it returns two-fisted Cinemactor James Cagney to his theatrical nonage of 1924, when he was just one of the boys tapping routines in vaudeville. Though still unable to startle the dance world, he does unveil a new, more versatile Cagney. As Terry Rooney, Manhattan band leader, he is called to Hollywood for the great opportunity. He leaves his girl, Rita (Evelyn Daw), to wait until he has demonstrated once more how a star is born. Studio specialists on clothes, coiffure, and voice view him with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 27, 1937 | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

...back of his limousine behind a portable desk, going over his mail. On arriving at his office he may begin dictating to two secretaries at once, then plunge into a series of 15-minute conferences with officials and delegations wanting favors, then dash off to dedicate a playground or unveil a statue, thence drive across a borough or two to speak at a civic luncheon, dictating orders as he goes to a secretary who can telephone them back to city hall while he is speaking. An hour later he may be back at his office to see a queue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: For Job No. 3 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...Missouri, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, and Chairman of the Overseers' visiting committee of the Division of Biology; and by Alden B. Dawson, Director of the Harvard Biological Laboratories. President-emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell and George R. Agassiz '84, President of the Harvard Board of Overseers, will unveil the statues...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL UNVEIL LATEST RHINOCEROS STATUES IN BIOLOGICAL LABS | 5/11/1937 | See Source »

...exploit any form of theatrical procedure necessary to attain its end. The production begins conventionally enough in April 1917 with Johnny Johnson (Russell Collins), a tombstone carver with an odd way of thinking things out straight, surrounded by his fellow townsmen who have come to see the mayor unveil Johnson's statue to Peace. The ceremony is interrupted by President Wilson's declaration of war against Imperial Germany and thereafter the narrative plunges into a succession of reveries and nightmares. Torn at first between his love for his patriotic sweetheart (Phoebe Brand) and his pacifism, Johnny does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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