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...curtain of tank and machine-gun fire to cut barbed-wire entanglements. Then the full power of attack brushed past pillboxes, deployed back and crushed them from behind. That accounted for the outer semicircle. For the inner, the process was the same. By noon both had been broken. By sunset the attackers had pushed eight miles to the heights looking down on Tobruch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: On to Derna | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...sunset the Italian flag was hauled down from the Bardia Government House; at 1130 the next afternoon Bardia officially surrendered. The British raised their estimate of prisoners taken to over 25,000, including General Annibale Bergonzoli, leader of Fascist volunteers in Spain, and four other generals.* Forty-five light tanks and five medium tanks were captured or destroyed. Australians were already carrying supplies in Italian trucks, dispatches on Italian motorcycles. They were ensconced in Italian quarters, eating Italian food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Fall of Bardia | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...running backwards (75 yards in 8.2 seconds) and is the greatest tap dancer in existence. Also easily appreciated is Paul Gerrits, an urbane, roller-skating master of ceremonies, and big, pasty-faced Red Marshall, who serves up vintage burlesque, including a Pullman-car scene entitled Red Rails in the Sunset. In the midst of his uncouth designs on women who are merely trying to retire, he announces: "I usually go to sleep as soon as my feet touch the pillow." Among the less comprehensible" features of the performance are a song which compares love to heaven, hell and a Turkish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 6, 1941 | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...Night at Earl Carroll's (Paramount) concerns operations at Showman Earl Carroll's pale green "theatre restaurant" on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. There is unconsciously aimless comedy by Ken Murray and others, and the Earl Carroll chorus girls strut stiffly about the stage in irrelevant maneuvers involving immense fans and Christmas-tree headgear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...North Conway a new and attractive building, a chalet-type ski barracks has been erected on the site of the Sunset inn main building which was destroyed by fire last June. This is part of the Eastern Slope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Column | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

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