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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been instrumental in organizing a Selznick-financed group of movie people (Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Dorothy McGuire, et al.) who do stage-acting in their spare time. But it will be a long time-three years at least-before he can hope to work again on Broadway. "The stage, yes," he now says with a hounded look, "when 1 get through with these commitments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Leading Man | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...Nicholas-how nice to see you again!" cried History. "Wherever have you been? And the Tsarina Alix! Your four charming daughters, I presume-gracious, but those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GHOSTS ON THE ROOF | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...Yes, yes, oh yes," said the Tsar eagerly, elbowing his wife's ghost out of the way. "What statesmanship! What vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GHOSTS ON THE ROOF | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...comparative prosperity of U.S. religion hearten the visitor and make him envious? At first glance, yes. On second thought, he found it "curiously depressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Fatal Cushion | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...model of reluctance that one opposition paper headlines it: ASHTON BACKS INTO PRESIDENTIAL RACE. When his party boss (Ray Collins) tells him where to get off, he demurely mentions a diary in which, during 35 years of party hacking, he has noted down "Everything"-even What Happened in Boston; yes, even What Happened in Denver. After that The Boys do not hesitate to get behind him heart & soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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