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Unfortunately, Mr. Wilton's revelations do not explain very much about the rather mysterious manner in which the mind of Boston's newest censor works, for he has announced that heading his list of tabooed plays are "The Vinegar Tree," "Sailor beware," "Strange Interlude," and "The Shanghai Gesture." Mr. Parker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/10/1934 | See Source »

He wakes from haunted sleep to hear his father slapping his mother (Katherine Warren), to hear himself referred to as "unfortunate." When the mother leaves for good, he follows, implores her vainly to return. He is haled into a divorce court, tortured for testimony by opposing counsel. By judicial decree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 29, 1934 | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

THE FIRST BILLION : The Stillmans and the National City Bank-John K. Winkler-Vanguard ($2.50). Once upon a time bankers were considered the pillars of Church & State. Even 25 years ago such a word as "bankster" would have been blasphemous. But not now. For these onetime gods of the U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Banker Bogey | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

But the curse of Tantalus haunted their Romantic love. As Amy Lowell explains, "She kept Keats in a burning agitation of desire which, under the circumstances, she was powerless to gratify." Yet she waited out the long days of his illness, lonely in her cold virginity, never regarding the torment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/11/1933 | See Source »

Chicago's drab old Auditorium, which made opera news long before Samuel Insull ever thought of building his handsome Civic Opera House up on the river bank, last week made news twice. Mr. Insull's theatre was as dark as a haunted house, gave every promise of remaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera for Chicago | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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