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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kameradschaft (Nero). "Ethical, not aesthetic values make up the value of this film." If this statement, by George Vil-helm Pabst who directed it, were true, Kameradschaft would of course be a negligible sermon, unfit to be observed. It is on the contrary a powerful and convincing picture of which the ethical values are important because, in his treatment of a coal-mine disaster on the Franco-German border, Director Pabst has implied them so artfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...shows must have a story, however remote from the general scheme of entertainment. This year's story concerns Wilbur Wilkins, the campus loafer (Joshua Logan), whose policies are op posed by Buck Heyward (Harold Tasker), the villain who wishes to awaken Prince ton from its beer-drinking lethargy. Vil lain Heyward also covets the affections of Miss Graham (Harry Dunham), daughter of Professor Graham (James Henry Breasted Jr., son of famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method of having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Smiling Tiger | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

Belvedere will always be accompanied by their husbands. Skeptics recalled that most of the late King Edward VIl's openly flaunted women had husbands, that these husbands often consented to attend his parties. But they recognized that times have changed, that the new Edward is discretion itself in applying his married-woman rule. For example, whenever he visits the smart French resort of Le Touquet, H. R. H. eschews the pretty, unmarried caddiettes. has his bag of sticks carried by plain, almost homely Mme Adolphine Lamour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Rules for Whoopee | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

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