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Any one of the areas that Mr. Carmer so rapidly covers is ample subject for a book in itself. Chautauquans and Rochesterians, especially those who are both, have good reason to complain of the treatment accorded them. But they come off well compared with Buffalo which gets about a page...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 12/1/1936 | See Source »

There is one moment of real magic when Larry is singing So Do I, best of the John Burke-Arthur Johnston ballads, in a dim courtyard, strumming his lute, while Patsy revolves around him in a grotesquely graceful, childish dance. Screenwriter Jo Swerling, however, quickly dropped development of the Pennies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

The solidarity of the little group begins to splinter. The generals complain of pains and illness, long to be away. The faithful Corsican attendant Cipriani (Jules Epailly) dies. Las Cases (Alan Wheatley), smugly cherishing his biographical notes, is sent away by the British -without his notes. Gourgaud (Joseph Macaulay), sulking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Harry Price is England's foremost investigator of psychic phenomena. For 30 years he has tracked down alleged miracles at home and abroad, slept in "haunted" houses, uncovered the frauds of tricksters. Having inherited money from his family, he spends about $5,000 yearly on his researches. He has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghost-Hunter | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Sherston's Progress begins with his treatment in a mental hospital, covers his readmittance to active service when his desire to make a martyr of himself ebbed, his service in Ireland, Palestine, his return to his command in France. A simple, moving book, it has little in common with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shell Shock | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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