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Dates: during 1940-1940
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"A shrewd conqueror will always enforce his exactions on the conquered only by stages. Then lie may expect that a people who have lost all strength of character will not find in any of these acts of oppression, if one be enforced apart from the other, sufficient grounds for taking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: PÉTAIN V. THE CONQUEROR | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

The original screen play is attributed to Mahatma Kane Jeeves, an obvious pseudonym to those who know that Fields writes his own lines. His own character-a small-town tosspot accidentally given the job of cop at the local bank-is labeled Egbert Sousé (pronounced Soo-zay). His small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 30, 1940 | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

About 1,000 times a week over 20 stations throughout the country, these sentiments are sung by a character called Gaston, whose recorded outbursts are sponsored by Chateau Martin wine. Few jingles have made such an impact on the U. S. Variations on Gaston's theme are popular in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gaston, the Patriot | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

When he began to croon, Lewis Reid of the Morris agency asked Character Actor Irving Kaufman to assume the role. Plump, pink-faced, freckled, balding, Kaufman, who as a small boy once played a spurious Russian midget in vaudeville, has portrayed Lazy Dan for Old English Floor Wax, Happy Jim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gaston, the Patriot | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Presumably this annoying character enjoys Playwright Shaw's sympathy, but the audience's is more apt to go to Actress Edith Atwater, who, as the WPA's lady, is one of the most desirable objects of the New Deal.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 30, 1940 | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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