Word: dis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchestra and Conductor Artur Bodanzky made the evening. Instead of the usual 80 players there were 104 in the pit. No music is more difficult. The strings in places are divided into 20 parts. 'Cellos must behave like violins. The tympanist does sleight of hand. Dis sonances pile on dissonances, savagely conflict and swirl away into new combinations. Stage honors went not to any performer but to Donald M. Oenslager, who made a highly effective setting out of castle walls, a great flight of steps and two cypress trees standing against an Oriental...
...Accepting Science's true achievements, he nevertheless damned it for proffering ''green facts" and "raw empiricism'' as solutions to the world's troubles. Said young Dr. Hutchins: "We have more in formation, more means of getting more information, and more means of dis tributing information than at any time in history, and yet we are [skeptical of] science, ideas and knowledge. Men have long since cast off God. To what can we now appeal? "The answer comes in the undiluted animalism of the last works of D. H. Lawrence, in the emotionalism of demagogs...
...night last week, shuttling 50,000 cases of gin across the river to Camden, N. J. Pennsylvania's Governor Pinchot was jamming through his Legislature a $2-a-gallon floor tax on every drop of liquor in his great distilling State. Next night he signed the bill, dis patched troopers to the borders. The 50,000 cases of gin belonging to a subsidiary of Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co. was about all the legal liquor that escaped be fore the tax became effective. Gin can be made in a day. Whiskey takes years. But a gallon of aged whiskey...
...what he vowed were not lottery tickets. Proceeds of the sale, his agents announced, "shall be disposed of in such manner as the Duke of Atholl shall, in his absolute and uncontrolled discretion, think fit." Some 337,000 Englishmen had enough faith in the Duke of Atholl's dis cretion to pay ten shillings each for tickets. From the proceeds His Grace last month gave ?60,000 ($290,000) to British chari ties, chiefly hospitals. The remaining ?36,000 he distributed as 748 "gifts" to certain ticket holders whom he vowed were not lottery winners. The biggest gift...
Chuck Connors (Wallace Beery) is a loud, muddleheaded, arrogant publican, proud of his door-knob derby hat and the biggest barroom on the Bowery. He dis trusts women, entertains a sentimental regard for a waif called Swipes (Jackie Cooper) whose favorite pastime is throwing stones through the windows of a Chinese laundry. Steve Brodie (George Raft ) is a different type of Bowery sport, a sleek, rakish gambling man, envious of Connors' prestige. When Connors befriends a respectable girl (Fay Wray) to the extent of letting her be his cook, slick Brodie promptly makes her his fiancée. When...