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...sandy loam of the valley, when irrigated by good water from Roosevelt Dam,* produces superior vegetables. But 1,000 disgruntled farmers had gathered together in the valley for a protest parade. They were incensed at 1,000 chipper little Japanese and some three dozen Hindus who were raising great big heads of lettuce and juicy lemons on their fertile valley soil, eating rice and doing nicely while an honest Aryan could not make a decent living...
Confident that nothing which could be used against him had been in his house, Vice Chancellor von Papen. no longer red-eyed, gradually recovered his aplomb until he was his old chipper self. Since the duties of a German Vice Chancellor are even more nominal than those of a U. S. Vice President, Herr von Papen was in no hurry to have a new building found for his Vice Chancellory. He urbanely left his old offices to Storm Troop Chief Viktor Lutze who kept peppering brownshirt Storm Troopers every few hours with new orders. They must not wear their uniforms...
...purpose smoothly but without that wit which, in plays condoning uncomfortable sophistication, gave Playwright Barry his authority. Handsomely produced by Arthur Hopkins, softly performed in a Robert Edmond Jones drawing-room, it provides Lillian Gish with a role which she acts as gracefully as the easier one her chipper sister has in By Your Leave (see below...
...that historic clue, the scene of Mahogany Hall might be any one of a dozen U. S. cities. The play is a moony obeisance to that fount of so much good & bad dramatic material, the brothel. Across its one majestic set parade half a dozen wenches, chipper lads and befuddled dignitaries in dinner jackets, a grafting commissioner, sinister "backers." a youth in love with an inmate, a twittering astrologist. a blundering social worker, a moody "Professor" (Eduardo Ciannelli), a baleful headmistress (Olga Baclanova ) who keeps everything under control until she falls in love with the Professor. It takes almost...
...sprawled and slept all over the muddy streets of the capital in protest against the Dynasty of Bratianu. Finally Vintila, far less able and astute than Ion, was forced to resign. Advised by Rumania's three Regents, Boy King Mihai appointed as Premier the National Peasant Party leader, chipper little Professor luliu Maniu, who arrived at the Royal Palace with his new Cabinet list scribbled on a crumpled bit of paper, exclaiming "Here it is!" (TIME...