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Nathan the Wise (adapted from the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing by Ferdinand Bruckner; produced by Erwin Piscator). This famous plea for tolerance, which a wise Christian wrote 163 years ago about a wise Jew, is still eloquent propaganda if pretty hopeless theater. It is easy to see why it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Apr. 13, 1942 | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Returning to post-war Germany, he was persuaded by Grand Admiral (then Captain) Erich Raeder to stick with the Navy-the crumb of a fleet left the Reich by the Versailles Treaty. He finally cast his lot with the Nazi Party solely because of his conviction that the upstart Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Deed Is All | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Eyes on the Argentine. From a speaker's podium banked with orchids, Brazil's suave; nimble-witted Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha stepped on to the floor to greet various delegates at the opening session. But when Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Toward a Moral Entity | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Robinson, known as Sugar among his coffee-colored pals, is a jive artist, cocky, quick-witted, high-strung and footloose. A typical product of Harlem's sidewalks, he loves boogie-woogie, would rather dance than eat. "I can't get that boy to eat enough to keep a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boogie-Woogie Bomber | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

The cast of the Cambridge Summer Theatre has caught this spirit of the authors of "The Male Animal" and have not stretched the comedy of the play to a point where it becomes farce. Conrad Nagel, in the lead role of a youngish college instructor befallen victim to a Red...

Author: By E. G., | Title: PLAYGOER | 9/24/1941 | See Source »

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