Word: comicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the 1938 jamboree opened with a Graustarkian comic opera entitled Smeltania, followed by coronation of a Smelt King & Queen. Next day jamboreers jammed banquets, watched smelt-eating contests, sang an official smelt-jamboree song, learned to dance "the smelt run," a cross between the shag and the big apple. At week's end the festival wound up with an afternoon parade and a mammoth bonfire at a nearby river. To this last flocked natives and visitors alike, armed to the ears with butterfly nets, bird cages, sieves, kitchen strainers, washtubs and burlap bags, for the season...
...valley the Alps rise 8,441 ft. at the top of the Naafkopf. The biggest village is Vaduz (pop. 1,715), the capital. None of the others shelters more than 1,500. There are no jails. Three green-suited gendarmes keep order. The inhabitants of the mountainous, comic-opera principality are largely cattle raisers, farmers. Chief means of transport is the bicycle and the streets of the sleepy little valley towns are usually dotted with cyclists, ambling cows and goats. The ruling family owns Liechtenstein's only industries-i.e., a weaving mill, using U. S. cotton, a brewery...
...Divorce of Lady X (Alexander Korda). A neat pick-me-up for jaded grownups. Producer Korda's first try in Technicolor is a saucy farce with three attractive attributes: 1) provocative Eurasian-looking Merle Oberon cutting the comic corners with all her curves and fast ones; 2) a top-flight British cast; 3) Technicolor. Aside from that used in animated cartoons, most Technicolor is a prettifying process that sets great store on being called "unobtrusive." Lady X's Technicolor is consciously as obtrusive as possible, jumped on production cost to $1,2000,000. When the scene opens...
...disused Northwest Railway Station, and soon 25,000 people jammed this impromptu auditorium, bellowing guttural cheers as Orator Göring in ruthless fashion rammed all the most provocative Nazi doctrines home. Austrian Monarchists he first taunted, by referring to the head of the House of Habsburg as "This comic boy, Archduke Otto!" (guffaws) Grimly Göring warned: "If Legitimism†continues, it will be treated as high treason, regardless of whether the charge strikes at an archduke or a worker!" Meanwhile last week, put under Nazi lock & key near Salzburg was the first former royal and imperial highness...
...Rocket to the Moon, Jupiter's Thunderbolt, a mild exercise in ingenuity. But how such out-planeters might talk, especially in conversation with men from Hollywood, has lately presented a weighty problem in linguistics. Flash Gordon is fortunate enough to find some English-speaking Martians, but with true comic-strip vigor, he usually manages to make actions speak louder than words...