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...puppet-actors, it proves too elaborate. A puppet Cinderella needs more than a fairy godmother's wand to make it come alive. All the Johann Strauss music in the world cannot make puppets waltz with Alt Wien charm. When they imitate human beings, they come to grief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old Show in Manhattan | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...Scraps of the Land of Memory and the Kingdom of the Future survive, somewhat transformed by Darryl F. Zanuck's magic wand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Dancer Lily Padeken (see cut). Most twittering columnist: Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker, who cheeped: "With the wave of a magic wand, and the expenditures of what must have been oodles of $$$$$, the onetime Maisonette Russe has been transformed into the Hawaiian Maisonette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...best of its cartoons (by Ogg Fitz-Gerald of the Wall Street Journal) showed a wide-eyed, wavy-eared white rabbit with a magician's wand in its paw (see cut), pulling Franklin Roosevelt from a silk hat, over the caption: "THAT'S NEWS!" Some of its fantastic side lights on Recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Bawl Street | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...cutthroat competition," stepped up by refugee musicians in the U. S. The ladies re-elected as their president curly-browed, sweet-spoken Mrs. Vincent Hilles Ober of Norfolk, Va., to whom The Good Fairy Valse was dedicated and played by Pianist Henry Holden Huss. Mrs. Ober waved a triumphant wand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Clubbers | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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