Word: cafe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combined waterfall and diving-platform. While still immersed, Warners' geometrical water-babies arrange themselves further into formations resembling a caterpillar unfolding its legs, a zipper-fastener opening & closing. On dry land they conduct their usual gyrations on a flat stage, on glittering pedestals and in a cafe where Ruby Keeler, in Chinese makeup, does a tap dance on a bar. Although the cinema code has not yet been signed, Hollywood productions, wherever possible, contain compliments for the NRA. In Footlight Parade, a line of marching soldiers fades irrelevantly into a U. S. flag. The flag fades into a portrait...
When Italian officers put away their glittering swords and appear at cafe tables in Sam Browne belts, then tourists know that maneuvers are beginning. They began last week from Asti in Piedmont south across the Ligurian Alps to the Italian Riviera. The problem was obvious: the defense of Genoa and the manufacturing cities of Italy's north from a French invasion through the mountain passes and along the seacoast. The Fascist militia was mobilized, acting in reserve for the regular troops. In the field too were little King Victor Emmanuel and Il Duce, who hurried over from his conference...
Bitter Sweet (British & Dominions) is a lavender-scented reproduction of Noel Coward's operetta about a girl who married a young musician, became a dancer at the Viennese cafe where he led the orchestra, attracted the attentions of a lecherous captain, had her heart broken when the captain stabbed her husband to death. With much more charm than most British musicomedies-which are inclined to be prim and lazy-Bitter Sweet is notable chiefly for its blonde leading lady, Anna Neagle, a onetime chorus girl. The producers of the cinema version of Bittersweet which Noel Coward insisted be made...
...enthusiasm of the young cutups began to wane, Republican police were suddenly ordered out to take down all Sacred Heart banners "to avert further rioting." Only one defender of the faith was discovered. As a shouting crowd swept along the Gran Via. a man suddenly arose from a cafe table crying "Viva Cristo Key! Long Live Christ the King!'' They made for him, but he fought them off with powerful squirts from a pale blue soda siphon. They wrecked the restaurant instead...
...Crowds of Nazi students gathered in front of Vienna University, were chased down the Ringstrasse by mounted police swinging their sabres. A huge bomb tore out the inside of a department store. Lives of dozens of people were saved when a 30-lb. bomb failed to explode in a cafe in Vienna's Jewish quarter, the Leopoldstadt. Not so lucky was Frau Futterweit. Standing in the doorway of her little jewelry shop, an old silk stocking stuffed with newspapers and a hand grenade was flung at her from a passing car. Frau Futterweit tried to throw it back...