Word: corlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sailing Along (Gaumont British) stars England's top singer and dancer, Jessie Matthews, in a jarring $900,000 blend of inexpensive, landscapy charm and budget-eating, Hollywood-inspired bandbox décor. In the ginghamy raiment of a river barge waif, Actress Matthews' sturdy, bike-legged nimbleness seems to belie her Cockney wispyness. But squired to proper-dance frocks and slippers and a fancy stage career by Soup Magnate Roland Young. she dances dainty duos with the U. S.'s Jack Whiting, sings her way to a typical cinemusical fadeout...
...useful to Colonel de Basil when veteran Massine departs. The troupe's three other new ballets were all done by him, performed in London during the summer. The Gods Go ABegging, music by Handel, is an old Diaghilev work, with old scenery by Bakst. With décor by Pierre Roy, French modernist, The Amorous Lion is based on a fable by La Fontaine which begins with this couplet: Love, love, when you invade our hearts, That moment common sense departs. Lichine patterned Francesca da Rimini after an episode in Dante, just as Tchaikovsky used Dante as the basis...
DEEP SOUNDINGS-Alan Cor by-C axton...
...seen first like a lone star in a black sky, then a flame front spreading and backwashing around the base of the chamber. At one stage back pressure was observed to make combustion-produced carbon dioxide hotter than the actually burning gases. Pressure-curve recorders enable motormen to cor relate pressure with flame front propagation, a long-sought goal.- Dr. Gerald Mark Rassweiler and Lloyd Withrow of GM's Detroit laboratories...
...Consultation Hours held in Master's Lodgings, cor. deWolfe & Mill...