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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half the time kidding rah rah stuff, during the other half Rodgers & Hart rove as far from the campus as they please. In Spic & Spanish, dark, Puerto Rican St. Vitus Dancer Diosa Costello does everything but break a leg. In I Didn't Know What Time It Was, charming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Good as it is, the music is not Rodgers at quite his best or most individual. But where Rodgers has dropped the reins, Producer Abbott has seized them and gone to town like Yankee Doodle. He has given Too Many Girls the genuine youthfulness of such Abbott comedies as Brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

> Lanky Ellsworth Vines, 28, of Pasadena: the 13th annual tournament of the U. S. Professional Tennis Association (in which were entered all the top-ranking U. S. pros, with the notable exception of Don Budge); defeating Defending Champion Fred Perry in the final, 8-6, 6-8, 6-1, 20...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

From Father Coughlin's critics the cry continues: Why doesn't the Catholic Church crack down on him? The answer is obvious. The Church's ranking leaders undeniably distrust and disapprove of the radio priest, but doing something about him might leave them with a schism on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: No Picketing | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Judge Thomas Richardson, chairman of Newcastle's Conscientious Objectors' Tribunal, rebuked "conchies" assembled before him by fuming: "I'm certain, as sure as I sit here, that if Christ appeared today he would approve of this war." Booed, hissed, Judge Richardson had to clear the court. Later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God This, God That | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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