Word: dix
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little man who followed Perry to the ping-pong title presents an interesting contrast. Small, pale and agile, with a striking facial resemblance to Cinemactor Richard Dix, Viktor Gyözö ("Viki") Barna was brought up in Budapest, played real tennis as a child, gave it up when he got a table tennis set on his 13th birthday...
...sight, "Westerns" have lately been relegated to the oblivion of double-feature bills, week-end matinees for children. On the chance that Legion of Decency approval will give them a new impetus, RKO took special pains with this one. Its story is by Zane Grey. Its cast includes Richard Dix, Martha Sleeper, Louise Beavers and an imitator of Stepin Fetchit who uses a preposterous pseudonym, "Sleep...
...Pecos is any special treat. It concerns a Colonel Lambeth who finding his wife dead when he returns from the Civil War, goes to San Antonio with his daughter Terrill (Martha Sleeper), and two of their retainers. Masquerading as a boy, Terrill meets a cowboy, Pecos Smith (Richard Dix). Pecos helps the Lambeths settle in their new home. The Comanches whoop upon the hills, the rustlers shake their guns and Colonel Lambeth guzzles his mint-juleps. At the end of the picture, the rustlers and Comanches are all dead. Terrill learns from Pecos that her trousers have not fooled...
...bitter disillusionment of the period is brilliantly expressed in the drawing of A Woman by Otto Dix. There is nothing soft or feminine in the face. Her coarse skin and irregular features express suffering, her eyes have seen the horrors of war. The work is a passionate attack on the brutality and stupidity of modern civilization. Just as forceful in its attack but far more humorous is the drawing by George Grosz called "Berlin Cafe" The bourgeoisie of the German capital is satirized with vitriolic fire. Portrayals of the sufferings of the lower classes appear in the prints and drawings...
...driving it along at 70, 80, 90 m.p.h. Thanks to airconditioning, its passengers felt nothing of Imperial Valley's heat. Up steep grades of the Rockies M10001 sped at over 50 m.p.h., shot through the snow-capped passes of the Continental Divide, glided swiftly across the prairies. Between Dix and Potter, Neb. it covered two miles in one minute flat. Never before had a passenger train hit 120 m.p.h.* After a run of 38 hr. 49 min. from Los Angeles M10001 glided smoothly into Chicago's La Salle Street Station, 20 hours ahead of the fastest regular train...