Word: closings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lieut. General Achille Starace, Secretary of the Fascist Party, who for eight years has stood close enough behind Benito Mussolini to tickle his shoulder blades with a stiletto. With sense of humor zero and self-confidence unlimited, Fascist Starace earned the nickname "Pantherman" by feats of physique-jumping a horse over a car, pole vaulting, diving over parallel bars, plunging through rings of fire. In his gaudy office, where he is protected by an always-loaded, pearl-handled revolver and by a solid gold Virgin, he has thought up many a mystic fetish, many a fiendish thuggery. He abolished...
Asked in a Los Angeles interview why opera had never been cinemadapted, well-fed Kirsten Flagstad replied: "We opera singers don't look very well. We would not look nice in close...
...when the race was for three-year-olds only, famed War Admiral came close to being humiliated by a horse named Masked General; in 1938 gallant Seabiscuit proved his superiority over War Admiral, his longtime rival, in their first get-together...
Biggest Negro newspaper in the world is the weekly Pittsburgh Courier. The Courier last year had 138,299 readers according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Its press run now is close to 170,000. Not more than about 10% of its circulation is in Pittsburgh; the rest is scattered over the U. S., ranges as far afield as the West Indies, China, Jerusalem...
...medium as the doughboy-boot-legger-bum. Out of what might be considered "just another toughie role" by many other actors Cagney has made a perfectly understandable human being swept up in a crazy era and thrown down again with a thud when that era comes to a close. Gladys George, as a considerably washed-behind-the-ears Texas Guinan, follows in Cagney's wake and gives him all the acting support he could ask for. But it is an insult to all Harvard graduates, past, present, and future, that Jeffrey Lynn has been cast as a product...