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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thanksgiving week saw three comedies open on Broadway, all of them bad. Aries Is Rising (by Caroline North & Earl Blackwell) featured a lady astrologer, suggested that the producers themselves were guided by astrology in putting it on. Ring Two (by Gladys Hurlbut), George Abbott's third production of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Errors of Comedy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

By week's end Aries Is Rising and Ring Two were dead & buried, I Know What I Like was in a coma.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Errors of Comedy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

> At Lawrence, Kans., Paul Christman & Co. showed Kansas what this year's Missouri team can do. They chalked up three touchdowns, a 20-to-0 victory and their first Big Six Conference championship. Nebraska, drubbing Oklahoma last week (13-to-7), finished second; Oklahoma third.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Hard-boiled jockeys, with whom he likes to have breakfast at dawn, condescend to call him a "regular guy." To seasoned sportswriters, he is a nice kid with a flair for sportsmanship and a sincere desire to give the public what it wants. At Pimlico he introduced the unprecedented policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: New Deal | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Last week, just as the Metropolitan was brushing off its costumes for the opening of the opera season, 61-year-old Conductor Bodanzky died of heart disease. Willy-nilly, he left behind him a reputation as a Wagnerian conductor-one of the world's best. Under his morose, buzzardy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wagnerian Conductor | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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