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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After spending 15 days in Rome waiting to be presented to the King of Italy and instead listening to the anti-Soviet demonstrations of Fascist youths, Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Gorelchin suddenly departed for home, leaving the impression that he is not likely to return to such a hostile capital very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Ciano on Crisis | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Moving of the British into the front lines was good news for many French soldiers, who muttered that the English would now earn their pay. Although the British nave made much of the fraternizing of the two Armies (one journalist said he gained the impression of "something that was nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: British In | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Despite the efforts of Buster Keaton and the Keystone Cops, who provide some uproarious sequences, "Hollywood Cavalcade" belongs to the great middle class. There is entirely too much of Don Ameche, and too little of Hollywood. No impression is created of the glitter town's lusty early years. In effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/16/1939 | See Source »

Fiction: Scholem Asch's "The Nazarene" is a fine and compelling account of the life of Christ, occasionally marred by the somewhat unnecessary framework. . . . As for Joyce's "Finnegans Wake," we are silent and abashed. Let him who can think of a better category for this experiment in language classify...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

The most interesting thing about "Winterset," currently being revived at the Copley Theatre, is the fact that it is a revival--of the Maxwell Anderson of several years ago. More particularly, it recalls vividly to mind the kind of work the man was doing, at that time, and it leaves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

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