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...century ago quadrilles and cotillions went out of vogue and every café orchestra in Vienna played its music in three-four time because a nervous little man named Johann Strauss had started writing irresistible waltz tunes. He conducted his own compositions while he fiddled bewitchingly at the head of his band. If Johann Strauss fathered the Viennese waltz, his son Johann II (Blue Danube), who was also an expert violinist-conductor, reared it to an historic state of world-wide popularity...
Directed by Victor Saville in the lethargic British manner, Evensong is chiefly notable for the fact that slim, blonde, pretty Evelyn Laye manages to look bitterly old, awkwardly massive in its final sequences. Good shot: the café scene from La Bohême, in which Spanish Soprano Supervia ably sings Musetta's Waltz...
They did not. As the months passed everyone in Athens heard that the gangster responsible for the attack was one Georgios Karathanasios. He continued to loaf around Athens cafés puffing a hubble-bubble and fingering a string of amber beads, boasting his immunity. Last week Statesman Venizelos' wounded chauffeur and six retired army officers, members of Statesman Venizelos' private bodyguard called the Republican Defense League, seized Gangster Karathanasios and delivered him to the highly embarrassed warden of the Athens jail...
This is Ketti Gallian's first feature cinema. Producer Winfield Sheehan signed her in London, where, playing in The Ace, she had been enough of a success to start two fashion fads: red hair ribbons and black silk stockings. Previously she had been a chanteuse in French cafés, had made French shorts. While in The Ace, she used to fly to Paris every week-end to see the races at Longchamps. Her first Hollywood contract contained a clause making it compulsory for her to speak perfect English in 100 days. Before the time expired, studio officials made...
...destruction. The burning and dumping had hardly begun before the 1933 crop turned out to be the biggest in history-nearly 30,000,000 bags. And all the world can use is 25,000,000 bags per year. But President Armando Vidal Leite Ribeiro of Departamento Nacional do Café made more briquets from coffee and tar, fired bigger mountains of beans, shoveled more bags into...