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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pure as Ivory Soap. Last week Soviet Russia made it perfectly clear that Eastern Poland had all along pined to be invaded. While the Moscow press carefully emphasized that there was complete freedom of opinion at the polls, Poles, Ukrainians and White Russians flocked to voting places and cast ballots for candidates for the new National Assemblies (Soviets) of Western Ukraine and White Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Freedom of Opinion | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...mercy of a muddled playwright and an arty director, a not untalented cast was doomed from the start. Apparently assuming that twisted bodies mean twisted souls, they writhed like the Laocoon group. A revolutionary solemnly announced that only a small part of the human race have their heads cut off. The villain twitched about the stage like Mephistopheles with a tic. The audience half expected Fannie Brice to burst in, roll her eyes, and mutter as she did of yore: "It is always c-o-old in Roosia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Bad Play in Manhattan | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Fire swallowing is an art that takes lots of practice but it is not particularly dangerous. I do it all with chemicals and it in just like breathing in warm air. Many believe that you have to have a cast iron mouth and throat for this kind of thing, but surprisingly enough I cannot even put a lighted match in my mouth without its burning the roof of my mouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRE EATER TELLS SEVERAL SECRETS ABOUT HIS TRADE | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

French war communique no. 126 reported tonight it had been a "quiet day." An earlier communique said the "night was generally calm" except for "reciprocal artillery action in the region cast of the Biles River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...this weird and wild fantasy, the New England Repertory has pulled out some fine actors and an appropriate set. Edwin Pettet heads the cast as Adam and carries the show, backed by a large and lusty supporting cast. It is noteworthy that with such an ambitious script and hefty cast, the production clicks. There are a few rough edges and, while parts of the play itself are completely mystifying, the show has so much color and vitality, and, as a whole, meaning, that it seems well-worth a trip down to the Peabody Playhouse...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/2/1939 | See Source »

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