Word: disruption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ranks high in entertainment, low as an artistic production. One fact probably follows from the other. For while a cast including Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Cary Grant, and Jack Oakie aims to please every taste, presence of such diverse and typed stars would without well-knit plot tend to disrupt any film into a series of bit performances. Such actually takes place, as the producers did not make out over well with their plot...
That juvenile notion may pass undisputed when the boys hold combat among themselves, staging high jinks in their own Yard. But it counts for naught when the battling children disrupt traffic, delay the homeward course of tired workers, endanger human life and destroy hard-earned property. Such antics deserve no indulgence. They should have sharpest repression and punishment by the police and the courts, and sternest rebuke by collegiate authorities, with quick and permanent expulsion of proved ring-leaders among the offenders...
...efforts to beat Bernie to the discovery; and the efforts of a girl singer named Alice Huntley (Alice Faye), who has outdistanced both, to nurse Eddie's self-esteem along to a point at which the knowledge that he is a radio sensation will not totally disrupt his poise, which is still barely sufficient to permit him to sing into what he thinks is a prop microphone in his girl friend's sitting room...
...other German's nowadays, and also to official greatness, was accomplished last week by Adolf Hitler. He and Ludendorff conspired together for the Munich "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923, marching down the street at the head of their henchmen toward Power- they hoped. When police began shooting to disrupt the putsch, they carefully did not aim at Hero Ludendorff who walked through their fusillade iron-faced, nor was Herr Hitler shot. Knowing that the police would aim at him well and truly, he dropped to his knees and skedaddled away to become Dictator another day. This ending...
When, in the last round of an important medal tournament which he has had a good chance to win, a young golfer gets to the tenth tee and learns that he is four strokes behind the leader, two things can happen. The news can disrupt his game completely or it can make him play superlatively well. This was the alternative which, last week at Augusta, Ga., faced 25-year-old Byron Nelson, whose most noteworthy previous achievement as a golf professional was winning New York's Metropolitan Open Championship last summer...