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Museum guards live constantly with art, but they are not considered experts on the subject. And, perhaps because they look bored, their artistic views are seldom consulted. Last week the San Francisco Chronicle published a "Guard's-Eye View of the Arts" by one who was not consulted but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: For Joe Bloake | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Vag was not himself that day he took Billy, his younger brother, to see the circus at the Boston Garden. The place affected him strangely: the smells of sawdust and animal-flesh, grease paint and rope, all got under his skin. The pushing mob didn't satisfy his desire for...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

When Chicago held its fair, the whole city was steamed up-not only the concessionaires and tradesmen, direct beneficiaries, but citizens whose enthusiasm was born of civic pride. The anomaly of the New York fair is that most New Yorkers have been genuinely bored with it. For the cosmopolitan conglomeration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: In Mr. Whalen's Image | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

(Twentieth Century-Fox) exhibits the skyscraper profile of Basil Rathbone becomingly topped by the fore & aft cupola of fiction's most famed detective. Unlike his pipsqueak present-day imitators, who solve crimes while airing their wives' dogs, getting drunk or talking pidgin English, Sherlock Holmes was a literate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

A racquets court costs only $50,000, has no royal recesses, is a 60-by-30-ft., four-wall court in which its few devotees play the fastest racquet game of all. The bats have small circular heads with long shafts, cost about $8, break at an alarming rate. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts & Racquets | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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