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Half-witted

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Comedy of a different sort is supplied by John Barrymore, who walks off with acting honors in a fine portrayal of a half-witted drunkard who forgets his sorrows by drinking and gloating over the misfortunes of others. Mr. Barrymore brings to the part, which has little to do with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Each winter thousands of sophisticated Manhattanites throng the Metropolitan Opera House to goggle at old-fashioned Norse gods and blimp-like maidens disporting themselves in animal skins and burlap. The music-dramas of Richard Wagner, with their wilful, slow-witted heroes (Siegfried, Parsifal, Lohengrin), and their clever, conniving villains (Beck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heroic Designer | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Fiorello LaGuardia used to run for Congress on the Republican ticket. He was originally elected mayor of New York City on a Fusion ticket, was re-elected with the additional aid of the American Labor Party, and in philosophy is strictly New Deal Democrat. Last week the mayor of New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Don't Start It | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

As already intimated, Charlotte Greenwood, amazingly resourceful as Letty, and equally versatile as herself, is the raison d'etre of the show. Con- sequently, her support is rather faulty. Romaine Callender, for example, painfully overdoes the part of the minister. Of course, it might be pleaded that the acting within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 1/6/1938 | See Source »

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