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Groucho on the trio's retirement: "Our stuff is stale. So are we. . . . The fake mustache, the dumb harp player, and the little Italian who chased the ladies were funny at first. But it became harder with each picture to top the one before. To get out of the groove we have to get out of the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 14, 1941 | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...Germans have gone to great pains to camouflage landmarks-disguising the main railroad station with fake foliage, planking over the Binnen-Alster (a lake-like section of the Alster River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IN THE AIR: Sweeps and Swats | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Songs by Captain Pearl Nye, a jovial, bearded, retired canal-boatman; a cook in Livingston, Ala. named Vera Hall; a fake blind man and his fake gypsy wife from Texas, who in 1909 sang for Mr. Lomax the now famous Whoopee Ti yi yo, Git Along Little Dogies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballad Hunter | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...model"), star of He Kissed Her Twice and Bingo, Hope is cast as a craven, overpaid actor suffering from the approach of the draft. Marriage looks like his best out. but his selected victim, a colonel's daughter (Miss Lamour), suspects his intention. He stages a fake enlistment. It backfires him into the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 7, 1941 | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...been giving the keystone plenty of attention. This time they varied somewhat the play acting that goes with standard Nazi infiltration. Instead of the usual hocus-pocus about being "tourists," they assumed new roles. A large number were reported to have debarked at Beirut from a hospital ship as fake-wounded, bandaged, limping and laughing. Others, blond, husky, erect, entered via Turkey under bogus passports as refugee Rumanian Jews, their suitcases marked with large Js. At Aleppo, German officers were strutting about in shorts, apparently made up as sportsmen. It seemed there they were also miming French pilots. A group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: The Syrian Show Begins | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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