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Dear - I cried so hard when I reached my cabin-the flowers, the hams, the turkeys, the cables made me cry more. I hated to leave America as never before. Though, always it has been a wrench. It is hard to turn one's back on light and wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 22, 1940 | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

The names of Ethel Barrymore, Vincent Sheean and Guthrie McClintic, collected under the head of "International Incident," sound like an eternally perfect triangle, but the illusion is unfortunately brief. In his first stab at playwrighting Mr. Sheean has far from lived up to his share of the bargain. Luckily, though...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/23/1940 | See Source »

The Human Beast (French). Cunningly Director Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion] contrasts the distraction of human lives (in this filming of Zola's novel) with the mechanical majesty of locomotives, the modern industrial beauty of the railroad yards, which are regimented, grimy and shabby, but also vast and mysterious. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

The Bishop of Bath & Wells, hardly a dealer in magic and spells,* was said by Spiritualists last week to be "sympathetic or at least fair" toward Spiritualism. Another committeeman, Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, hinted at the tone of the report when he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Suppressed Spirits | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

A generation ago glass was cut to make it sparkle, concealing greyness and flaws in the crystal. Today, such firms as Orrefors in Sweden and Steuben in the U. S. produce glass so flawless that it can be cut to contrast a silhouetted design against clear, elusive crystal. By an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Drawings on Glass | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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