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...largest committee is the Social Service Committee, which takes care of a great deal of the entertainment for underprivileged children that are tended by thirty settlement houses scattered all over Boston. Every talent that volunteers can show will find an audience among these youths...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE STARTS YEAR WITH OPEN HOUSE | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

...footsteps if not in the mood of Walter Page to the red-draped oak-and-leather office in Downing Street. There he saw a man like him only in that both are deeply religious, an extremely tall, gaunt, bony-faced man, with a sensitive mouth and a talent for gentleness, the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax. The end came on Sunday morning, September 3 when Kennedy sent a triple priority cable to Secretary Hull reporting that the British had moved up their ultimatum deadline to Hitler one hour. There would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: London Legman | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Born Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili, known as Sosso, then Koba and finally Stalin, the future dictator of Russia was until 1917 an obscure Georgian revolutionary with a talent for intrigue. Souvarine indicates that he practiced even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Background for War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...taxes, Agent Selznick collects a straight 10% of their earnings, binds them to five-year contracts. In Hollywood round numbers, the Selznick clients' payroll is annually $10,000,000, the Selznick Co. tithe $1,000,000. But Agent Selznick is also reputed to hold pieces in several rival talent agencies. His other investments include a piece of Brother David's Selznick International Pictures, a race horse named Can't Wait, and stud poker at sickening stakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hotfoot Man | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Larry Earl (Bing Crosby). Like Impresario Edwards, Larry goes on mopping up with his moppets until a children's protective society forcibly shows him the error of his ways. By that time Larry has uncovered practically everything the U. S. has to show in the way of juvenile talent from miniature tap dancers to a 14-year-old coloratura soprano (Linda Ware), who is good enough to sing with Walter Damrosch (Walter Damrosch). And in the meantime grownup Bing Crosby has had a chance to sing as well as they have ever been sung such Gus Edwards classics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture: Sep. 4, 1939 | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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