Word: constant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cinema audiences in Italy must endure constant playing of Fascist anthems. Few pictures are released without classical titles. One announced in Rome as The Odyssey of Charlie Chaplin turned out to be the original Paramount, Tillie's Punctured Romance. Though Italians are partial to German imports, an observer for Cinema reports that when Emil Jannings in Othello was shown at the Royal Opera in Florence, at one performance the audience consisted of six people...
...seasons was tonight elected to lead the Bulldog eleven next season. Booth who has been mentioned by numerous sports writers at various times during the season as an All American prospect has proved the main cog in the Yale team throughout the past fall, his triple threat being a constant menace to all opponents of the Blue...
Queen Mary, since it became publicly) known that she smokes (TIME, July 14, Aug. 11), has received a constant stream of protests, not from Her Majesty's own subjects but from women's clubs in the U. S. babbitt belt. The Queen does not smoke "gaspers" (popular brands) but medium priced, tipped, essentially feminine cigarets...
...Weeks of constant rain, constant seepings from the flooded river Saone had turned the interior of Fourviere to a quaking pudding. Earl)' in the week engineers reported danger of landslides to city authorities. At 1:15 in the morning people living on the flank of Fourviere heard a noise ''like the crack of doom" felt the world slip out beneath them...
...Bayreuth, gave new life to the declining Wagner festivals, was asked to take over the artistic direction. But despite his successes he came back last week depressed, lonely. In Bayreuth he was deeply affected by the death of Siegfried Wagner. After his own Philharmonic, the Bayreuth Orchestra was a constant source of displeasure and disappointment to him. And on July 13 large, capable Signora Toscanini lost her wedding ring, the next day broke her leg which has been so long healing that she was unable to go with her husband to the U. S. Without Signora Carla (his name...