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When his first Broadway play, My Heart's in the Highlands, closed last week. Modest-Violet William Saroyan wired th Broadway critics: "The custom of reviewing a play on opening night is a good one, I believe, but not quite complete enough. I sincerely suggest, therefore that, if possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: First & Last | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

In Manhattan, one John Bowie Carter wanted $1,000,000 so he could get started on a "humanitarian play" covering events from 1649 to the 1940 Presidential election. He wired to the New York Daily News: "Will hold up J. P. Morgan's Wall Street headquarters at 11:07...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

> The U. S. S. R. has 30,000 cinema theatres, almost as many as all Europe's put together, but only 8,000 are wired for sound.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: World Cinemart, 1938 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

Major Lawrence Lee Bazley ("Boom'') Angas is a pink & white Britisher with a reputation for making daring predictions which have sometimes come true. He is supposed to have foretold the collapse of rubber in 1926, the rise of gold shares in 1931. He won his nickname with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: On the Spot | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Just before leaving Prague, Herr Hitler wired his army: CONGRATULATIONS ON RESTORING PEACE AND ORDER IN BOHEMIA IN SPITE OF INCLEMENT WEATHER. Continuing his triumphal tour, Herr Hitler drove to Brünn.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Time Table | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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