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The satire of rotund Art Young is gentler, his humor more pointed, and his following is a generation older and more devoted than Grosz's, but he too was tried for sedition during the War when the editors of the Masses (Art Young, John Reed, Floyd Dell, Max Eastman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young & Grosz | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Dr. S. I. Hsiung has committed to letters an old Chinese play that has been handed down by word of mouth for sixth-six generations, or some two thousand years. Primitive conceptions of romance apparently have much in common, for the story contains such supposedly Occidental elements as the third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/5/1936 | See Source »

The antithesis of Actor Gielgud, Actor Howard robs Hamlet of every shred of dignity and nobility: by being peevish with Polonius' garrulity instead of simply bored; by being quizzical when he means to be sardonic; by indicating neither method in his madness nor madness in his methods; by delivering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Howard's Hamlet | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

"My Man Godfrey" is the apogee of madness, and it succeeds for one very good reason; Carole Lombard. As you sit there helplessly in your seat, dissolved in hilarity, you are likely to begin attributing your shameful condition to William Powell or to the drunk who wrote the lines. But...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Hecht and MacArthur again, taking sophisticated cracks at the newly popular cult of armchair communism, as practiced at intellectual colleges. This one is co-educational; the founder's daughter, a bored post-debutante, returns for more learning after a trip around the world, and falls in love with the arch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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