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...Yves Mirande, director of many a gay French cinema comedy, had a motoring smashup in Mâcon, France, was treated for his injuries by the Doctors Denis pére et fils. Recently Doctor Jean and Son Raymond took their lawyer to see Une Petite Fortune, a new Yves Mirande film in which a village doctor gets the local mayor to remove warning signs from a dangerous crossroads, waxes rich patching up motorists when they crash. "Libel!" roared the lawyer, and Director Mirande was promptly sued by Denis pére et fils. "My film is a pure fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pefite Fortune | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Until recently Persian art as a whole has been a far-off subject to the West. But in the past 15 years several comprehensive exhibitions of Persian art have opened Western eyes. Most important of these took place nine years ago in London (TIME, Aug. 18, 1930, et seq.), five years ago in Leningrad. Last week, in Manhattan's onetime Union Club building, the U. S. had the biggest & best of the lot. Among the exhibition's 2,800-odd paintings, statues, carpets, pots and miscellaneous objects (total value, $10,000,000) were: 1) five of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Persian Art | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...given him the biggest headlines of any contemporary artist. Last year Sculptor Epstein produced his latest shocker, a three-ton, seven-foot, simian statue of Adam in pinkish alabaster, whose bull-bold virility made pulpits seethe, strong men blush and the public flock to look (TIME, June 19 et seq.). Exhibited by an enterprising purchaser as a side show at the English summer resort of Blackpool, Adam grossed some $250,000 from drop-jawed vacationists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Virile Adam | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Miss Perkins' rendering of the opening sentence of the Nicene Creed: Credo in unum Deum, Patrem I believe in one God. the Father omnipotentem, factorem caeli et terrae, all mighty, maker of heaven and earth, -visibilium omnium et invisibilium. of visible things all and of invisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Latin for Ca+holics | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...last seven years Dr. Hyman et al. have treated 376 syphilitic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Syphilis Cure | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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