Word: bohemia
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...middle of the feature, Kid Galahad, at the early show at Manhattan's little Greenwich Theatre "Where Bohemia Meets the Modern" one evening last week, the lights came on suddenly, the picture faded from the screen and the sound equipment boomed: "Attention, please, ladies & gentlemen. This is the motion picture operator speaking to you from the booth. There is no trouble with the equipment and no cause for alarm. I am using this means to protest to you against the inhuman working conditions in this theatre. I work seven days a week, eleven and one-half hours...
Caroline Durieux, a genteel Creole lady from the seedy Bohemia of New Orleans' French Quarter, grew depressed at the closed shutters and slatternly denizens of Bourbon Street where she lives, and painted a picture of several chinless, crop-headed characters, melancholy as bloodhounds with distemper. This she labeled Unemployed (see cut) and sent it all the way to New York to take its place with the rest...
...black bridal dress, it is explained, originated in Bohemia, where it was customary to regard marriage as an event of great religious solemnity, which the bride must approach with grave spirit...
...GODS ARRIVE-Grant Lewi-Lippincott ($2.50). Comfortably overstuffed Depression chronicle of a 26-year-old Albany blueblood who deserts his family for New York's bohemia, comes to his senses as a disillusioned department store executive...
...begins promisingly with a forthright description of the major fiasco in the pursuit by Federal agents of John Dillinger-the shooting at Little Bohemia, near Rhinelander, Wis. on April 22, 1934, when agents under Purvis' direction surrounded Dillinger's hiding-place and in the subsequent confusion shot three innocent men and lost one agent to the escaping gunmen. Recounting the last-minute tip that made haste necessary and bad organization inevitable, Author Purvis tells of the flight of three airplanes loaded with special agents from Chicago, of the drive to Little Bohemia in ramshackle cars, of sneaking through...