Word: fitfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confront Stalin with the problems which were by this time weighing on my own conscience-the use of terror as a technique of government, the suppression and punishment of heretical opinion within the ranks of devoted communists, the persecution of scientists and scholars, the distortion of history to fit new policies, systematic forced labor, the virtual enslavement of workers and peasants in the name of socialism. ... I was depressed by the feeling of a magnificent opportunity frittered away...
...girls she ensnares. The Sapphic inferences were noted in the character played by beauteous Else Argall, Author Deval's wife and a newcomer to cinema. Censorship deleted her best scene, which shows her successfully fighting the urge to join the girl of her desire. Considered fit for Manhattan cinemagoers was the shot in which she poisons the procuress-telephone operator. Playwright-Director Deval was in Manhattan last week with the script of a new play, Soubrette, seeking a producer and planning on Actress-Wife Argall for the lead...
...design is by Elbert McGran Jackson and was sent up from Philadelphia last week at the request of Edward Coxe, local circulation manager, who was bewailing the fact last week that the color was just a couple of shades off to fit into the Harvard Square scene with complete harmony...
...latter potentate, persuades the man to discard his vapid beauty and give Terry Randall (Miss Bennett) an audition. They come around at midnight, drag Terry out of bad, and Mr. Gretzl (the producer), blows cigar smoke in her face. The unhappy young woman breaks down in a fit of coughing and chagrin, but all is saved when her sensitive friend throws off his bondage, buys the play, and takes her over professionally and personally...
...remained a final expression; "I'd Rather Be Right" has very little to add to the former's artistic trenchaney. The new work is a highly specific representation of the present administration, with ridicule hurled at everybody in it. Jim Farley, Henry Morgenthau, and Madame Secretary Perkins are undoubtedly fit subjects for the lampooner's art, and the caricatures of them are skillfully drawn. But the President is scarcely touched when an entirely different person walks about more or less in his likeness, although the making him out as a happy-go-lucky experimenter does strike close to home. Horse...