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...Histories have previously been written with the object of exalting their authors. The object of this history is to console the reader. No other history does this." British Authors Sellar & Yeatman have written, in 1066 And All That, a more than consoling parody of English history, from Caesar's conquest of Britain to the end of all things, when, the U. S. being "clearly top nation . . . History came...
...Little Caesar (First National). Undoubtedly the most familiar of current screen figures is the fearless, ambitious gangster who becomes rich on the fruits of evil and dies in the last reel in a heroic manner. With less adroit handling Little Caesar might easily have been no more than a fair program picture and its central character merely a reflection of his many forerunners. Instead, Actor Edward G. Robinson has made his role the supreme embodiment of a type. He is helped by Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling...
...developed a method of sterilizing fly eggs in mercury bichloride solution and incubating them until they hatched into sterile maggots. The Department of Agriculture's job is to develop a method of quantity production. The flies used are the bluebottle (Calliphora erythrocephala) and the greenbottle (Lucilia caesar...
There is some good music written by Sigmund Rombert and in one song? "Pizarro Was a Very Narrow Man"? Irving Caesar has turned out a rollicking lyric. The book, by Otto Harbach, is usually plausible...
Author William R. Burnett (TIME, July 1, 1929; Jan. 13) wrote five novels, 50 short stories before he published his first book, Novel No. 6. It was Little Caesar, chosen by the Literary Guild (June 1929). His next book, Iron Man, was Book-of-the-Month for January 1930. Successful, married, he lives in Los Angeles...