Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard the morning stars when they sang together. I saw Thor gather in the rainbows to wrap about the dying storm; I walked with Caesar through the three parts of Gaul and I listened to Virgil when he sang his Aeneid when I was told I was to introduce this...
With that anecdote current last week in the film industry, critics wondered if an executive had asserted that The Public Enemy was not going to be anything like Little Caesar. In detail The Public Enemy is nothing like that most successful of gangster pictures, but its central idea is identical-dissection of the criminal mind by reconstruction of one criminal's career. You see James Cagney as a tough boy led into petty thieving. He moves higher, into the bigger business of robbing storage lofts. He rises to become an outstanding rumrunner and a journeyman of homicide until...
...Histories have previously been written with the object of exalting their authors. The object of this history is to console the reader. No other history does this." British Authors Sellar & Yeatman have written, in 1066 And All That, a more than consoling parody of English history, from Caesar's conquest of Britain to the end of all things, when, the U. S. being "clearly top nation . . . History came...
...Little Caesar (First National). Undoubtedly the most familiar of current screen figures is the fearless, ambitious gangster who becomes rich on the fruits of evil and dies in the last reel in a heroic manner. With less adroit handling Little Caesar might easily have been no more than a fair program picture and its central character merely a reflection of his many forerunners. Instead, Actor Edward G. Robinson has made his role the supreme embodiment of a type. He is helped by Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling...
...developed a method of sterilizing fly eggs in mercury bichloride solution and incubating them until they hatched into sterile maggots. The Department of Agriculture's job is to develop a method of quantity production. The flies used are the bluebottle (Calliphora erythrocephala) and the greenbottle (Lucilia caesar...