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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tangible evidence of the oft repeated press agents' blurb, "You'll laugh and you'll cry", is found in: Three Smart Girls, starring that remarkable youngster, Deanna Durbin. Whatever mistakes may have been made in the earlier portions of the film are compensated for in the cleverly built up climax, which "packs a strong emotional wallop...
Chavez was made director of the National Conservatory of Music in December 1928. He instantly set about cleaning up teaching methods, saw that students learned to play accurately, built a chorus, organized research in native Indian music. From March 1933 to May 1934 Chavez served as Chief of the Department of Fine Arts. There too he pressed for an autonomous Mexican style, resigned his post only because of political changes...
...east of the Rocky Mountains was $2,675,000,000 as against $1,844,000,000 the year before, $1,255,000,000 in 1933. Residential building, which reached a low of $248,000,000 in 1934, was up to $801,000,000. About 260,000 new homes were built compared to 75,000 in 1935. Yet last year the U. S. spent less than $12 per capita on new housing as against $61 at the height of the home-building boom...
...masked ball, picking up a young man and beginning a clandestine but innocent correspondence. She developed new hobbies: a morbidly "humanitarian" interest in insanity; a kind of throne-room liberalism in which she prattled social equality, without realizing what a limb she was out on. She built a Greek palace in Corfu (cost to Franzi: 30,000,000 kronen), tried to sell it as soon as it was built. She traveled tirelessly. At 57 Sisi became a great-grandmother. She exercised, traveled, prattled harder than ever...
...floods have been Egypt's prime worry. Too little water means famine; too much, catastrophe. Since Egypt has been under England's benevolent paw, the Nile has been studied, shackled as never before. British hydrographical research costs $500,000 a year; the great dam at Aswan, built to regulate the Nile's flow, took three years to build, had to be thrice heightened, cost...