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...tragedy and 'high comedy' requires anything greater than performing on the variety stage. . . . At least, these ordinary vaudeville performers do not get across by special pleading that they are 'pure spirits.' " One thing Mime Enters found in performers like Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson. Jimmy Savo, Moran & Mack and the Fratellinis was timing raised to a high art. She raised it, in some instances, higher. Her use of castanets in a dance-pantomime called Boy Cardinal, composed in 1932, was something Bojangles or even the late great La Argentina might have envied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: High Vaudevillian | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...sipping Scotch & soda. Presently they began to munch chicken patties, crab cutlets, cakes, nuts and mints. Suddenly a tall, gaunt old fellow with bushy white eyebrows and sunken eyes strode in briskly. The guests promptly gave him a spontaneous yell of greeting. The old fellow was Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), manager, treasurer, president and co-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics. The occasion was his 75th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One More Championship | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...gentleman of color. No attempt is made to explain how so much pigment got all over the open spaces. It is there, palpably, by a whim of the Almighty, indulged with the liberal connivance of one Jed Buell, an independent Hollywood producer who learned his art from Mack Sennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Emile P. Gautheir '38, North Chelmsford; Joseph J. Geehern '40, Westfield; James MacK. Gillespie '40, Andover; Harold L. Golden '38, Brookline; David S. Grey '40, Woburn; Wendell F. Grimes '38, Winthrop; Edward G. Harris '38, Allston; George C. Harris '38, Cambridge; Joseph P. Healey '38, Cambridge; Robert B. Holden '38, Stoneham; Jacob Horowitz '39, Roxbury; Gordon S. Ierardi '39, Somerville; Harry M. Johnson, Jr. '39, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $34,300 IN PRIZES GOES TO 131 MASS. UNDERGRADUATES | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

...which has refused to register with the SEC as required by the Public Utility Act of 1935. This week E. B. & S. and every other utility holding company was dealt a severe blow when the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision of Federal Judge Julian W. Mack which restrained E. B. & S. from using the mails or other means of interstate commerce unless it signed up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: I.B.A. | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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