Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtain our cooperation in preventing her imminent rout as the master of Europe it appears that Great Britain must effect a settlement of her huge unpaid balance on the War debt since this unpaid debt apparently makes the Johnson Act applicable...
...Germany's friend Japan. It came just as the ink was drying on a French-Turkish trade pact. It also brought on what was later described as "extraordinary pressure" from Germany. Von Papen was given an hour in which to perform his suave, bully act, then President Inönü made clear to France and Britain that he stood with them in the great lineup. Turkey, said her No. 1 editor, would stand with the Allies "even if the Reich were ten times stronger...
Wagner: Die Walkure, Act 2 (Berlin State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Bruno Seidler-Winkler and Bruno Walter conducting, with Lotte Lehmann, Marta Fuchs, Margaret Klose, Lauritz Melchoir and Hans Hotter; Victor: 20 sides). Austria's Anschluss in 1938 interrupted a magnificent recording of Die Walküre in the middle of the second act. Already completed were Sieglinde's scenes, sung by anti-Nazi Lotte Lehmann, conducted by Jew Walter. After Anschluss the rest of the act was filled out by a 100% Nazi cast. Despite this patchwork, the result is good enough to make a Wagnerphile...
...side by P. T. Barnum, on the other by radio and talking pictures. Loosely based on the life and exploitations of Impresario Gus Edwards, who detected promise in such kiddies as Georgie Jessel, Lila Lee and Walter Winchell and plucked the youthful Eddie Cantor out of a knife-throwing act, The Star Maker has as its frame the similar career of 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...
...Long Island, American Bullfighter Sidney Franklin, decked out in cerise cape and a sheathed wooden sword, got ready to put on a bull-dodging act for a New York World's Fair rodeo. On hand were representatives of the S. P. C. A., 200 spectators, a bull in a corral. When somebody opened the gate to the corral, nothing happened. To attract the bull's attention cowboys did a dance in front of the gate. The bull didn't budge. Steers were driven into the chute as decoys. The bull looked the other way. Twenty minutes later...