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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THE LIFE OF GREECE-Will Durant- Simon and Schuster ($3.95).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

> Consolidations are also impractical because the big roads cannot agree among themselves on which of the little roads they will absorb. ICC, in its Consolidation Plan in 1929, compromised by agreeing to the creation of as many as 21 systems. Plans less influenced by political prudence advocate something more like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: When If Ever a Profit? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Destry Rides Again (Universal). One day this year Hungarian-born Producer Joe Pasternak had an idea for a U. S. western. He would take German-born Marlene Dietrich, cast her as French-born entertainer in a Wild West saloon. He would take Russian-born Mischa Auer, cast him as an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

James Stewart, who had just turned in the top performance of his cinematurity as Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, turns in as good a performance or better as Thomas Jefferson Destry. Marlene Dietrich, as Frenchy, the bad girl of the Last Chance saloon, turns in her best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

The Great Victor Herbert (Paramount) opens with a stern view of the bulgy, bobbing little maestro tripping down the centre aisle of a theatre to conduct a synthetic Victor Herbert operetta. When he turns to make his bow, the audience sees that he is just able, amiable Walter Connolly dressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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