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Word: classics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the regular companion picture, "Romance in the Dark," brings Gladys Swarthout and John Boles in a pleasant, if unoriginal, musical, tonight's special showing of "Paradise for Three" may be more heartily endorsed. Despite the classic angle, dear to the heart of German A, it is good comedy in the best Robert Young tradition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/12/1938 | See Source »

...bedrock essential that Welles & Houseman apparently lacked was cash. But after a succession of muffled death-rattles backstage, the Mercury came to its first play's first night. On November 11 it produced Julius Caesar. On November 12 the public was informed that Shakespeare's five-act classic had: 1) been turned into a one-act cyclone, 2) on a bare stage, 3) in modern dress, 4) with a modern meaning, 5) gone over with the loudest bang that Shakespeare-lovers could recall. And decidedly First in Rome had been Director Orson Welles for managing the entire production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Marvelous Boy | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...racing technique in this classic of beer can races is a combination of the kick and roll. Rheingold beer caused a lot of trouble at the starting line and much confusion by continually running into the gutter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEER CAN DERBY BROKEN UP FOR CREATING DISTURBANCE | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Bolles' flashy eight men whipped the Charles into furious foam yesterday in the first time trial since the Rowe Cup Regatta and in preparation for the Compton Cup classic at Princeton this Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOLLES' OARSMEN WIN IN TIME TRIAL EVENTS | 5/5/1938 | See Source »

...YORK--Madeleine Carroll, England's blonde gift to Hollywood, brought her classic profile to Columbia University today to find out why members of the senior class chose her as "the College man's ideal companion on a desert Island." She didn't find out. The boys served her tea, showed her the beauties of Morningside Heights at sunset, but refused blushingly to collaborate on the reasons they chose her, foremost of which in the poll was "her ability to speak French." Only 50 of Columbia's students were permitted to meet her David Periman, editor of the Columbia Spectator, selected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 5/3/1938 | See Source »

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