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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goldwyn-Mayer). A first-rate screen play by Wells Root and a first-rate performance by Joseph Calleia make this otherwise ordinary Gangster v. Government film agreeably nerve-racking. Calleia is Joe Emerald, neurotic head of a protection racket who, because his own legs are so weak he cannot walk without two canes, has set his heart on becoming proprietor of a heavyweight champion prizefighter. The Root screen play shows how a G-man (Robert Young), who has inherited a promising young plug-ugly from a brother the racketeer has killed, uses this obsession to bait a dangerous but efficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

Captain Forde A. Todd, U. S. N., had a distinct roll to his walk as he crossed the rostrum in Sanders Theatre as though it were the quarter deck of a four master...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celebrities Helpful, Shy, Glowering Under Stare of Camera Eye; Lady Delegate Politely Reneged | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

...wore the uniform of an American soldier, sailor or marine, who fails to cast his ballot for one Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President of these United States of America -every day that fellow stays out of an insane asylum he is away from home. Personally, I would walk on my hands & knees from Memphis to Washington, D. C., just for the opportunity of making known, in my very limited way, my admiration, adoration, and adherence to the policies of the World's Greatest Human Being- Franklin Delano Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...walk through her Midway laboratory (she lives across the street from it), glance at the case histories of 9,000 mice, tell what kind of cancer, if any, each will develop. She can tell 98 times out of a hundred how soon the disease will appear and in what part of the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: If Men Were Mice | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

...program is now $5,000. Last June the Lux program moved to Hollywood. In its Manhattan run, the "Lux Theatre" had supposedly been administered by one "Douglas Garrick," fictitious character created for advertising purposes. In Hollywood, the "Lux Theatre" also had a dummy director, but this time he could walk and talk. While production was actually handled by J. Walter Thompson men, it was announced that oldtime Cinema Director Cecil B. De Milk was putting on the radio show. For his opening program from Hollywood, California's De Mille presented handsome Clark Gable and long-legged Marlene Dietrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Free Show | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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