Word: effective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...session-end of the last Congress, leaders in both parties pledged to stay in Washington to counsel with the President. To all but one Mr. Roosevelt said in effect: Go on home if you want. Airplanes are always handy. But to Charles Linza McNary of Salem, Ore., Republican leader in the Senate, Franklin Roosevelt said: Stay here. Since then wise, weary Charlie McNary has constantly counseled with the President, breakfasts at the White House sometimes thrice a week, always entering from the Treasury side to dodge reporters. To the President Charles McNary has given many pieces of his mind...
Despite the efforts of Buster Keaton and the Keystone Cops, who provide some uproarious sequences, "Hollywood Cavalcade" belongs to the great middle class. There is entirely too much of Don Ameche, and too little of Hollywood. No impression is created of the glitter town's lusty early years. In effect it resolves into a Don Ameche Cavaleade, the story of a brilliant but erratic director of the old silent days who bombasts his way through many years of happiness and stark tragedy, and in the end manages to get Alice Faye and some gray hairs. Miss Faye, surprisingly effective...
...define it, but they have, within the limits of stagecraft, tried to reproduce some of its many facets. To realize the ambitions ideal they set up for themselves, the Dramatic Club has used a cast of more than 150, a large production staff, and 26 scenes, a total effect which can only be described by college standards as colossal...
...brought forth a mouse, but it certainly has brought forth no result comparable to its size, Weighted down its own tremendousness, they play loses its sense of movement, purpose, direction, and sprawls out into a series of isolated scenes. Even this impressionistic, kaleidoscopic technique might have created a unified effect had the production staff been able to set and maintain a snappy pace. But many of the scenes were punctuated with lengthy pauses, the sense of continuity sinking further and further into the background with each succeeding second of inactivity...
...increase in wages granted to waitresses last spring was given by Aldrich Durant, Business Manager, as the main cause for the change in board rates this fall. He stated last year that "the cumulative effect of these (labor) adjustments has been such that for the past two years the receipts of dining halls have failed by a considerable margin to cover the charges...