Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make sure he isn't getting rusty. But the final morsel, which he is waiting for, comes in the Music 4 exam, next week. A few little pieces will be played, then disappear into silence. Who might have written them? What musical form are they in? Compare, or contrast...
...contrast to "Mr. Lemon", which as usual combined with other things to leave one feeling entirely at peace with the world of men, "Millie", starring Helen Twelvetrees, was so stupid that it hurt. Miss Twelvetrees is so constantly in personal communication with her director that one feels uncomfortably intrusive, and gropes for the nearest exist. If one is so unlucky as to wish to stick to it out, one sees Miss Twelvetrees get indecently plastered, hears her tell her chauffeur to drive faster, faster, hears the pistol fired, and hopes to God that it is Miss Twelvetrees...
Hoover on "Gigantic Waste." In contrast to eager European babble about cancelling what is owed the U. S. (some eleven billion dollars) the international congress received in stony silence last week what President Hoover had to say. He pointed out that nearly five billion dollars are being spent every year on armaments, an increase of about 70% over that previous to the Great War. This stupendous annual expense is 20 times greater than Europe's annual payments to the U. S. President Hoover's conclusion...
...Angkor Vat French publicity, with a few potent exceptions, is the world's worst. "Wembley" was on every man's tongue before the British Empire Exposition opened (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924) and colossally failed.? By contrast the awkwardly named Exposition des Arts Decor atijs at Paris in 1925 was almost a secret at the time, yet it touched off the bombshell of Modernistic Art, gave furniture and architecture a whirl that is dizzying people yet. So atrocious is French publicity that a broadside recently fired in English by the Ministry of Colonies begins with this sentence...
Svengali (Warner). This is a vigorous example of John Barrymore's second or hokum manner. In contrast to his first or popular manner, in which the spectator's attention is directed to the beauty of his profile and his legs, the second manner (Moby Dick, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) involves the creation of sinister atmosphere by means of makeup, pale rolling eyes, false whiskers, mouth pieces used for the distortion of the teeth, and stilts in his shoes to make him look taller. He is Svengali, the musical hypnotist of the Latin quarter, in a story that...