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...Bill (Warner Bros.): Kay Francis, less glamorously gowned than usual, as a harried New England widow braving family and financial problems with the aid of her youngest son (Dickie Moore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Into the Potomac freight yards just outside of Washington. D. C. last week rolled Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc. Off the tent cars came rain-wet canvas to dry in the sun. lest spontaneous combustion destroy what labor combustion had left of the Greatest Show on Earth. Representative Robert Low Bacon of Long Island surveyed the sorry scene, declared through G. O. P.'s publicity office: "Not even the great Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus can compete with the circus the New Deal is now giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Off the Road | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

White Banners (Warner Bros.) continues the campaign of moral uplift which its author, Lloyd Cassel Douglas, started in Magnificent Obsession and Green Light. Central character of Green Light was a bubbly jocular minister who, when the minor characters in the story became upset, explained to them that humanity was a kind of automotive parade best governed by the traffic signals of unselfishness. In White Banners, the minister is replaced by a warm-hearted maid-of-all-work named Hannah (Fay Bainter). Otherwise, the formula is much the same. When Hannah straggles into the household of a high-school science teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Last winter when a syndicate of Hollywood bigwigs, headed by politically powerful Jack Warner, production chief of the $177,000,000 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., succeeded in getting permission to build a second racetrack in Los Angeles County (to operate during the summer), local businessmen suddenly went mum. They decided to wait until the community was saturated with year-round racing before attempting any organized crusade against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hollywood Track | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

When Were You Born? (First National-Warner Bros.) : Anna May Wong in a murder mystery which engagingly demonstrates the merits of astrology as an aid to tracking down desperate criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

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