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...skull is tucked away (in a volcano). Next day with the help of the Sultan (who has a strong German accent) Miss Lane traps enough animals to stock a zoo. It does her no good because Mr. Ciannelli lets them all out again the same night. There is another bedlam of leaping lions, snarling leopards, flitting hyenas. By the time she gets them back in their cages, Miss Lane is all primed to go skull hunting. Then the Sultan takes her and her friends into protective custody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: Mar. 18, 1940 | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...tall broad fellow faced the unruly audience. His blazing black eyes glared down the noise. Before he had said a word, the bedlam was ended. Startled by the quiet, the mob gazed open-mouthed at the platform. Then, when complete silence acknowledged his absolute mastery, he spoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/5/1940 | See Source »

Browder entered the hall by a back entrance because 3,000 persons jammed the two front entrances. As he spoke the crowd outside raised a bedlam, shouting "Viva Hitler" and "Go back to Moscow." The Communist leader several times had to raise his voice to make himself heard inside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Uproar at Yale as Browder Lectures | 11/29/1939 | See Source »

...them completely. Stoop-shouldered, solemn Templeton would sit at the piano and reproduce the sound of a whole Wagnerian opera, pounding out brass chords, yodeling out-of-tune soprano arias and throaty German tenor recitatives. From Wagnerian opera he would turn to Italian opera, lieder singing, Gilbert & Sullivan, the bedlam inside a music conservatory. Last week Pianist Templeton brought his improvisations and caricatures to Carnegie Hall, where they formed the dessert of a program of more conventional piano music. Crotchety highbrow critics hemmed & hawed about his straight playing, but they had to admit that his mimicry was extraordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Ear | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...like bedlam let loose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 11/23/1938 | See Source »

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