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...clay country. For cinemaddicts who adore child actresses, Virginia makes the most of four-year-old Carolyn Lee. After Honeymoon in Bali (also with Carroll & MacMurray) Carolyn's steel executive father took her home to Martins Ferry, Ohio, was persuaded by Director Griffith to give her another whirl in pictures. But the real news in Virginia's cast is 24-year-old Stirling Hayden, who had never acted in anything before-not even a Sunday School pageant-when Director Griffith gave him his fat part in Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

Soon the noble savage's life was a whirl of London parties as drawing-room doors flew open. Omai dressed in the height of fashion. Baffling British etiquette held no mysteries for him. He was presented to George III. Sir Nathaniel Dance and Sir Joshua Reynolds (see cut) painted his portrait. His manners were preferred to those of Mr. Philip Stanhope (the bastard boy on whom Chesterfield lavished his famed letters of advice on how to behave: "Remember the Graces, the Graces, the Graces"). Only ungracious, hardheaded Sam Johnson growled to Boswell: "Don't cant about in defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Noble Savage | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Morton Gould: Foster Gallery (Boston "Pops" Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler conducting; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50). One of radio's bright boys, 27-year-old Composer Gould, gives Stephen Foster tunes a harmonic whirl, leaves Susanna and Jeanie with a light black eye. But good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: January Records | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...such things go: $25,000 a year. His present contract ex pires at the end of this season. Dimitri Mitropoulos lives simply, avoids parties, prefers the movies or the company of orchestramen. Twice last week he tele phoned Minneapolis, said he missed the boys and disliked Manhattan's whirl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gifted Greek | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

Harvard is struggling to keep its head above water in the modern football whirl and quite sensibly refuses to grab a life-preserver called subsidization. But there must be a showdown soon because Harvard wants to find a way to reconcile big-time and amateur football...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Grid Dilemma May Be Solved By Forming of New Ivy League | 11/1/1940 | See Source »

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