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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which knew that two newsreel cameramen were among the Panay survivors, all the evidence was not officially in until the newsreels arrived. Last week, after a record ten-day rush from Shanghai via U. S. destroyer, China Clipper and cross-country plane. Movietone and Universal reels gave the last word on what happened to the Panay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Word | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...intermission, the action overflows between three small inner stages and out into the audience on the forestage. The Shoemakers' Holiday looks and sounds like spontaneous revelry, but it represents the hard work of a talented new group whose ambitions are neither political nor esthetic but, in the word's best sense, theatrical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Old Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 10, 1938 | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...unfounded impression that Ravel was a hairy-chested radical persisted among conservative French critics for years, despite the fact that his music was the last word in elegance and refinement. Unprolific and self-restricted to the smaller forms of composition (he never wrote a symphony), Ravel managed a fairly steady output of clean-cut, impeccably styled works which was interrupted only by the outbreak of the War. Frail, diminutive Ravel served as an ambulance driver; later his health collapsed under the strain. After the War he bought himself a secluded villa in the country outside Paris, where he spent most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Death of Ravel | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Cuba heartily joined the goodwill flight plan, added three airplanes and her best flyers to the single machine of the Dominican Republic. Suddenly last week their months of flight talk were shocked to a dismayed whisper as word was received that seven of the nine flyers, the whole Cuban contingent, had been killed in an almost incredible triple collision in the mountains of Colombia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Goodwill Flight | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...Camden, Del., Farmer James Harris lost the silver platter he won as first prize in the pie-baking contest of the Peninsula Horticultural Society when Mrs. Hynson Cohee sent word to the contest committee that she had sold Harris the pie for 30?, and that she wanted her pie tin back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fire | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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