Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...clubs, the various state censors, the state legislatures and the Congress of the United States is called to the fact that Mae West has produced another screen play which she wrote herself. . . ." Whether or not Klondike Annie is really worth the attention of Congressmen will depend on how familiar they are with earlier West efforts from which the current one differs only in detail. This time she is a San Francisco strumpet who knifes her Chinese paramour, slips on board an Alaska-bound freighter, enraptures its captain (Victor McLaglen), befriends a churchworker bound for Nome, usurps her identity when...
When examined carefully, the offers of the Reich government all bear the familiar ear-marks of the proverbial gift-horse. Frankly, all have that hollow ring; the appearance of flimsy subterfuge; the look of ill-disguised bad-faith. France must assume a stern, unyielding attitude at once if she is to preserve her prestige, and retain the support and alliance of the Soviet. Germany must be faced now and beaten in this desperate gamble, for in five or ten years time, she, and not France, will be once more the King-pin on the European alley...
...production is being written by Elliott C. Carter, Jr. '30 using Italian folk songs as his theme. Masks and scenery are based on wall paintings from the period when mural art in Rome was most under the influence of the theatre. The stage setting itself is modelled after one familiar to visitors to the Pompeian room of New York City's Metropolitan Museum. The whole production will reproduce as closely as possible the actual atmosphere of the first century...
...Breckenridge, Tex., the heart of a contemporary oil boom. The night they arrived there was a little shooting and three corpses were laid out on a billiard table in one of the town's play parlors. Emil Hurja started the Breckenridge American. All his life he had been familiar with mining in Michigan, Montana and Alaska. Oil drilling was a kindred occupation and in a few years his paper gained considerable reputation in mining and oil circles. One day a New Yorker dropped in to ask him a few questions. The upshot was an invitation to go to Manhattan...
Albert Anthony Baroni is a carefully-tailored gentleman whose wise, sunburned Latin face has grown increasingly familiar to track followers for the past five years. Long ago, Mr. Baroni ran a restaurant in Reno, Nev. With the profits, he bought racehorses which he, himself, trained and ran at minor tracks. He first attracted national attention in 1933 when in Chicago he was arrested, indicted but never tried for giving horses heroin. By that time, track followers had noticed one remarkable thing about Mr. Baroni: His stable was being run at a consistent profit. However, any suspicion that this was disproportionately...