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Word: erikson (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crisis concerns last summer's developments in Czechoslovakia. Photographed by Alexander Hackenschmied, assembled by Herbert Kline, with an accompanying commentary written by Vincent Sheean and recited by Actor Leif Erikson, it examines from a frankly anti-Nazi point of view what happened between Hitler's invasion of Austria and the Munich conference. It sets out to show that the Czechs in their difficult predicament did much better than they were done by. Prime difficulties of recording history on film are that: 1) history neglects to follow a shooting schedule, and 2) that the most significant happenings are often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Documentary Films | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Pretty Mary Rogers (Sylvia Sidney) lives in a firetrap. When a fire breaks out, her small brother falls off a ladder, a bystander (Leif Erikson) takes both to the hospital. He turns out to be the owner of the tenement. Convinced that he has been remiss, he decides to pull down all his old tenements, put up better ones. Legal, social and domestic difficulties impede him. But when the tenement where Mary Rogers lives flares up again, he finally goes to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Social Insignificance | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...time Cossack Mike Belan is trying to make a getaway from Leavenworth Penitentiary on horseback, pursued by his long-lost son (Leif Erikson), who has joined the U. S. cavalry and fallen in love with a Cossack singer (Frances Farmer), only cinemaddicts with phenomenal deductive powers will be able to keep track of the proceedings. Only unusually indulgent cinemaddicts will want to. Typical shot: Akim Tamiroff roaring at Leif Erikson in Cossack dialect while showing him how to take a Cossack Turkish bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Left wing Howie Mendel starved for the Crimson by scoring both goals in the Eli mud. Yale opened up in the first period when Erikson scored on a well placed corner kick which slipped into the goal through alert Put Williams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOTERS BEAT ELI 2-1; END SEASON UNDEFEATED | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...Artists of America), backed by Broker Harold Orlob. Odessco's picture: Home Town, with Wallace Ford and Stuart Erwin, directed by William K. Howard (Transatlantic). Triple A's picture: "...one-third of a nation," first WPA play to be adapted for cinema, with Sylvia Sidney and Leif Erikson, directed by Dudley Murphy (Emperor Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Items | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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