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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marcel Tabuteau likes nothing better than to fall reverently to sleep on the table after a Herculean meal and a bottle of wine. Says he, holding up his thumb and forefinger in an expressive circle: "A little garlic? M'sieu, there is no such thing as a little garlic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Little Garlic | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Gypsy Smith began evangelizing New York last month in The Bronx, delivered 13 sermons in rich, old Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, moved uptown again last fortnight. He winds up his engagement this week in no less august a fane than the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with Bishop William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: For Pagans | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Over Catholic Spain Pius XII was not so happy last week. He had heard that Generalissimo Francisco Franco wished to expel, as hostile to his regime, Tarragona's Francisco Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer, who during the Spanish War was as near to being neutral as any ranking prelate (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Proud Vaunt | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Amazing as the success of these two comedy-writing firms has been, more amazing still is the fact that, in addition to serving as a full-time partner in each, George S. (for nothing) Kaufman has also set up in the play business with at least 22 other people, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Kaufman's own reason for constantly collaborating is simply that he needs collaborators, that he doesn't think his plays would be very good if he worked alone. Every collaboration is an evenly shared two-man job, with long preliminary stretches for working out every detail of plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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