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1939-11-27 Life Magazine Contents

1939/11/27 — Cover photograph featuring Arturo Toscanini and granddaughter Sonia Horowitz is credited to Herbert Gehr

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

  • Greatest War Pictures Show German Bomb Raid on the Firth of Forth
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • German Prisoners in England Play Soccer
  • Fire in Los Angeles
  • …Murder in New York
  • Baltic Germans Return to the Fatherland
  • New German War Films Show Quiet Things Are on Western Front
  • Winner of Hollywood Leg Derby Meets Opposition
  • Communists Are BEaten by War Veterans in Detroit

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • The Cases of Dr. Gonzales

    • THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Germans in America — Most of Them Are Loyal Americans

    • MUSIC:

  • LIFE Calls on Toscanini and his Little Granddaughter Sonia

    • THEATRE:

  • “Life With Father”

    • ART:

  • “Show Boat” – A Painting for LIFE by Doris Lee

    • NATURAL HISTORY:

  • Now-extinct Birds Used by Audobon as Models Are Found

    • SCIENCE:

  • Television Apparatus Creates Artificial Eclipse

    • SPORTS:

  • 77-Year-Old Alonzo Stagg Makes Good at College of the Pacific

    • MOVIES:

  • “Jane Bryan Is First of Starlet Crop Who Really Knows How to Act

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures = James Thurber Draws a Parable on War
  • LIFE Goes to the Dali Ballet
  • Pictures to the Editors