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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FAIR PLAY - Munro Leaf - Stokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Miss Spencer's "mad Ophelia" scene, are read by women, while the men in the cast are uniformly poor, always excepting Mr. Sever and possibly Jervis B. McMechan '42. Moreover the man responsible for the revision of the play, as well as its direction and staging, is Jack Munro, a 28-year-old Canadian actor and author who boasts "a crimson past but no connection with Harvard." In spite of this outside assistance, or quite possibly because of it, "The Critic" may be recommended as refreshing entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/16/1938 | See Source »

Ferdinand (Walt Disney). Munro Leaf's and Robert Lawson's famed floraphile bull,* exhibiting his languid individualism in eight minutes of ingratiating Technicolor cartoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Story of Ferdinand-Munro Leaf -Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: August Best-Sellers | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...Captain Munro is a 69-year-old sea dog who retired from the Royal Navy after 30 years' service, enough action in foreign parts to become a qualified interpreter in Burmese, Hindustani, Swahili. His naval training prepared him specifically for Nessie, for during the War he devised and carried out all British harbor defense against hostile submarines. Last week his round, disappointed-looking face was brightening with hope, not for shareholders ("they may never get a return on their money"), but for the fair name of science: "It is time," said he, "that the scientific world was taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Nessie and Co. | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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