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Featuring Abbott and Costello, who are to a funnybone as a detonator is to dynamite, "Hold That Ghost" is easily one of the top ticklers of the year. A thousand good gags--they've all stood the test of time--have been thoroughly rehashed and served up with a haunted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Hold That Ghost (Universal) is about that haunted house Universal has been making and remaking these many years. It is not much of a house, but Abbott & Costello are in it and that makes it funny. They inherit it from a murdered gangster, refuse to be frightened out of it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 25, 1941 | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Handsome, brilliant, persuasive, emotional Wang Ching-wei, Japan's puppet President of China, during most of his 57 years has been haunted by the ghost of power, the fantasy of cheering crowds. For praise and power he has already sacrificed the memory of his master, Sun Yatsen, the trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Puppet Show | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

This scandal from the past was not the only one which last week still haunted the MacFadden enterprises. In the courts are three minority stockholders' suits against retired Bernarr MacFadden for company money allegedly spent trying to wangle the Republican Presidential nomination in 1936 and on his Foundation charities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scandal in Circulation | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Souto was born in 1902 in the northwest Spanish town of Pontevedra (pop. 28,755). His father, a painter of Corot-like landscapes, was also a magistrate and enough of an Anglophile to name his son Arturo, after King Arthur of the Round Table. Taught painting by his father, at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Spaniard | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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