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...Annual Report of the Society for the Education of Imbecile Youth in Scotland"; "A Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak English for the Use of Chinese Pupils"; and "The Report of the Widows' Society of Boston" are three of the queer titles found by Miss Barbara Tisdale, Radcliffe '35, in her work of cataloguing 40,000 pamphlets, magazines, tracts, letters, and catalogues for use in the graduate schools of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queer Titles Turn Up Among 40,000 Magazines, Catalogues And Tracts Buried in Cellar of Library for Past 50 Years | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

...Chicago's newly imported Littlefield Ballet, helped make it agreeable to ballet fans and tired businessmen alike. A good-natured, showy satire on night-club life, its scene recalled Manhattan's El Morocco; its main characters were thickly disguised as Heavyweight Max Baer, "Chain-store Nymph" Barbara Hutton, Columnist Lucius Beebe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cyrano von Grofe | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...SANTA BARBARA, Calif--Louis Hayward, 29-year-old film star, and Ida Lupino, British actress, were married today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

...pretty good cast. Perey Kilbridge is excellent as Pop Clifford, who travels around the country "straightening out" his son-in-laws. Quill, the meek little man who used to think that men who wore top hats never had to go to the bathroom, is overplayed by Hume Cronyn. Barbara Robbins as Evelyn Quill does nothing to redeem a role which is entirely out of key. Harold Grau, Matt Briggs, Naomi Rae, and Otto Hulett are all good, and Donald Oenslager's hotel room set is particularly effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...Miss Manton (RKO Radio). Screwball comedy and screwball murder mystery combined, more happily than usual, with Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene and Frances Mercer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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