Word: magic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cissie Loftus (Sun. 2 p. m. NBC-Blue) heads Magic Key bill, impersonates theatrical colleagues...
Thomas Mann, great & good German novelist (The Magic Mountain, Joseph in Egypt) who voluntarily quit his native land in 1933 when Hitler came to power announced he would apply for U. S. citizenship this week...
LAUGHTER IN THE DARK - Vladimir Nabokoff - Bobbs-Merritt ($2.50). The European psychological novel of moral decay, represented at its best by the novels of André Gide, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, is now eclipsed by politically-minded fiction. Sharply reminiscent of such psychopathic fiction, but with an acuteness that raises it above mere imitativeness is Laughter in the Dark, first English translation of a Russian exile. The story tells of a respectable, middle-aged Berlin art dealer who deserts his family for a tart, reaches its climax of corruption when, after he is blinded, she carries...
...English translators. For many years Cambridge Professor Edward J. Dent; one of England's most eminent critics and musical biographers, has brooded over the problem of translating operatic texts into sensible, singable English. Published recently were his translations of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and Beethoven's Fidelio. Where a hitherto much-used 1850 translation of Don Giovanni reads...
...your grocer for Magic Washer Soap Flukes (gong). Ladies and Gentlemen, for the first time in the history of the U. S. a Congressman has utilized a radio station to obtain the attention of his fellow members of Congress...