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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Answering Miss Sheridan's taunt that while she earns $100,000 a year by her oomph, the average Harvard graduate makes less than $5,000 Bowie said. "We wonder by what criterion Miss Sheridan claims success for herself. If she earns $100,000 a year, it is further proof of public gullibility rather than of Miss Sheridan's success as an actress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ann Sheridan Sharpshoots at Lampy; Calls Harvard Humor Sheet Sad Rag | 3/6/1940 | See Source »

...wonder if her brief five-minute orgy in "They Made Me a Criminal" is a sign of success" Bowie added significantly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ann Sheridan Sharpshoots at Lampy; Calls Harvard Humor Sheet Sad Rag | 3/6/1940 | See Source »

...speakers, Dr. James M. Wood, proposed that universities release their sophomore and freshman classes to the junior colleges, as the universities are not equipped to offer adequate training to these undergraduates. Both plans are worthy of some consideration, but at the same time they make one wonder what these playful imaginations will bring forth next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEXT PLEASE | 3/5/1940 | See Source »

When the scripting team of Gene Towne and Graham Baker announced that it would film Swiss Family Robinson as its first fling at producing, story-starved Hollywood gasped with admiration, wondered why Johann Rudolf Wyss's century-old best-seller had been overlooked so long. The wonder has abated. Even versatile Gene Towne is hard put to it to make the uneventful life of Eden entertaining for 93 minutes. He is equally hard-pressed to keep the book's romantic inspirations from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Americans of this second westward trek are still fighting the desert, the mountains, hunger, thirst, death. Tame Indians stand and wonder at them. The Indians these modern pioneers fight are California deputies who resent the invasion of their State as much as earlier red men resented earlier whites. These are in a better position to show resentment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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