Word: cen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...number and ingenuity of the population. A nation of clever and ambitious people with scant natural resources has but one recourse: it must sell its services by fabricating and transporting raw materials supplied by others. The economic history of Germany since the third quarter of the last cen- tury has been the history of a people consciously and steadfastly steered by their State to sell services. "We must export," recently said Herr Hitler, a legitimate heir to this tradition, "or die." In the rush to catch up to western industrial powers, Germany has tried ever since 1871 to syncopate history...
...singers placed in the orchestra pit while dancers from the American Ballet mimed their roles on the stage. Even among purists such a prospect aroused little concern. A similar device had worked successfully with Rimsky-Korsakov's Cog d'Or, seemed ill-suited to the 18th Cen-tury Gluck, whom Isadora Duncan consistently referred to as the greatest of dance composers...
King of Burlesque (Twentieth-Cen-tury-Fox). When Warner Baxter, a promoter of strip acts who aspires to more artistic realms, buys himself a society wife (Mona Barrie), it is a foregone conclusion that he will not profit by the bargain. What is not a foregone conclusion about King of Burlesque is the sudden meteoric pace it strikes when Mr. Baxter starts his comeback. The situation at this point is Baxter down & out, with Alice Faye, lead in his old burlesque show, seeking a way to help him without making herself known. She and Jack Oakie hire a sandwichman...
Missionaries who set out to evangelize the primitive world during the last cen-tury and encountered such customs and beliefs as this were inclined to think that they had fallen not only among heathens but also lunatics, and wrote lengthy, sorrowing reports of what they saw and heard. Students of cultural anthropology, however, began to realize that these backward people were not irresponsible children but that their entire mental orientation was as different from civilized man's as though they inhabited another planet. With trained scientists in the field correcting and supplementing the first reports, it became further apparent...
...been jingled by Poetaster Arthur Guiterman and Guild Director Lawrence Langner. Guiterman has written neatly lyrical doggerels to be sung to songs based on old French folk-tunes and bergerettes. Able Dancers Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman and assistants give a parody turn and little inspiration to some 17th Cen-tury dances. Pictorially it is nearly perfect. But even dour-faced Osgood Perkins as the tyrannical Brother Sganarelle and childish-voiced June Walker as his ward who is advised to "serve his meals all dank and sultry, and in between commit adultery" cannot make much of Moliere's empty comedy...