Word: dimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be able to stand "365 Nights in Hollywood." The songs are none too catchy, the story is unbelievably atrocious and Alice Faye who seems to be the raison d'etre of the opus would do much better in a cabaret where she would not be forced to dim her physical charms by unsuccessful attempts at acting. Despite these failings the picture will please if you are not in too cerebral a mood...
...Black River Railway, the young folk meet again. Dan has to toss Jotham Klore into the water before he can persuade Molly to come and live with him on his new farm. Excellent as are the sharp, penny-plain performances by Miss Walker and Mr. Fonda, they do not dim the legitimate debut of droll Herb Williams. In earmuffs and plug hat, he impersonates a sly dizzard who signs on as driver of the Sarsey Sal. Fortune is not a mule driver by trade. He prefers gambling and his various winnings in kind enable him to embark on such careers...
...procession of grimy trucks and creaky wagons bearing big placards wound slowly through the deep, dim streets of downtown Manhattan one lunch hour last week. Wastepaper dealers were holding a parade against their luckless lot. Under contract at 15¢ per cwt. to empty the trash baskets of Wall Street's tall towers, they were unable to sell their wares for any price at all. Whereas a year ago they could get as much as 70¢ per cwt. for this waste they were now having to pay a big incinerator a fee to dispose...
...directorial podium refreshed by an extended European summer, Dr. Koussevitsky submits an interesting, effectively contrasted program to his Cambridge subscribers, where Town and Gown--Brattle Street on the one hand, balanced by delegations, of the music-hungry from Harvard and Radcliffe--crowd the Elizabethan stalls and galleries in the dim light of the ancient gas chandelier. Three major works are listed for performance: Weber's brightly pointed overture to his opera "Oberon"; Borodin's Second Symphony; and the mighty D Minor Symphony of Cosar Franck which was played last week at the opening pair of concerts in Symphony Hall...
Onetime Representative John Philip Hill, who in the dim past of Prohibition delighted to make a spectacle of himself by public home-brewing, won a three-cornered race for the Republican Senatorial nomination. In the November elections he will oppose George L. Radcliffe, Baltimore lawyer, senior vice president of Fidelity & Deposit Co. A great and good friend of Nominee Radcliffe is President Roosevelt, who was a Fidelity & Deposit employe from...