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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old author, still takes his dead-serious play seriously. He went to the opening of the revival, a sad, reedy figure in a great black cape, doddered up the stairs to his box holding on to both handrails, sat tense through the uproar, at the end bowed to the audience, thanked them. Asked in a BBC interview whether he wasn't angry at the way audiences treated Young England, he answered: "No. They're a little noisy . . . but they pay as much as 10 and 6 for seats, so they must like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Wrong Door, Wrong Door | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Finnish Relief Fund nearly missed. Near week's end it was reminded (by TIME'S Religion editor) that in the newest (1935) Methodist Hymnal, Hymn No. 73 is sung to the tune of Jean Sibelius' Finlandia. It begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Finland | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Denied a further extension of his four-month alien visitor's permit, rabbity British Earl Bertrand Arthur William Resell, famed libertarian logician, found he must leave the U. S. by year's end. Not anxious for U. S. citizenship, but wishing to qualify for a permanent chair of philosophy at the University of California (where he has been lecturing), Earl Russell will go to Ensenada, Mexico, try to persuade the U. S. consul there to admit him permanently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...pose of indolence, he figured that he had turned out close to 21,000,000 words. He had also managed to paint pictures, run for Congress, organize a labor union, make innumerable speeches, run a little weekly newspaper of his own, remember the Holy Sacrament, spend hours on end eating & drinking with his friends in such Manhattan night spots as the Stork Club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Column | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Georgian suspended publication at week's end, turning its features and news services over to the Journal. That left Atlanta with just two daily newspapers, one of them Clark Howell's famed old Constitution. For years the Journal and the Constitution, both owned by influential Atlanta families, have combined to fight the Georgian, Hearst's Yankee interloper. With the Georgian gone, Atlanta can look forward to a hot battle between Journal and Constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Deal in Georgia | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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