Word: flower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will take a world-culture, the flower of a system of world-states, in order to ensure the appreciation by all of us of all the great men of all countries. Nationalism, with its warping provincialism, induces an illiberal and lazy habit of mind which exalts one's tribal gods at the expense of all other deities. Men ask, "Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?" and like Pontius Pilate they do not stay for an answer to their question. The reputation of Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) has suffered as a result of this cultural parochialism. Pushkin occupies...
...ballet compares to the Lindy-hop. Skater Henie's No. i specialty, as it was Dancer Anna Pavlova's, is a swan dance. On the shrewd assumption that a cinema public which had never before investigated figure skating needed to be educated before witnessing the rarest flower of the art. Producer Darryl Zanuck insisted that she save it for a subsequent picture. What her cinema debut offers instead, in the interstices of a loosely woven story approximating Sonja Henie's own biography, is a series of simple routines climaxed by newsreels of her winning performance at Garmisch...
Painting very faintly in the manner of Bonnard and Renoir, Artist Malherbe is a vivid colorist, specializing in dashing, brilliant-hued landscapes, flower pieces and nudes. His brother Henry is a well-known music critic. Hard working, and after four years in the War almost pathologically shy, Artist Malherbe has just one interest out side his painting: Nornie, his black-saddled wirehaired fox terrier, which he likes to put in figure compositions. Represented in a dozen good collections, Artist Malherbe has a technical peculiarity. He paints everything on panels of soft wood, to ab sorb the excess...
Rainbow on the River is a sentimental costume drama, dated 1875, in which the cinema's No. 1 boy soprano lifts his clear and bell-like voice through a gamut of songs from Ave Maria to Swanee River, from The Flower Song by Dr. Hugo Reisenfeld to Rainbow on the River by Paul Webster & Louis Alter. When not adroitly playing his own accompaniments on an adult size banjo. Soprano Breen shows himself past master of vaudeville song-plugging technique, including clenched fists, rolling eyes and trembling smile...
...iron-clad blue serge bathing suits suitable for Far Rockaway in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. A genuine Morris chair, a cylinder phonograph, a pianola. Photographs of Olga Nethersole as Sappho, Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks, Maude Adams as L'Aiglon. First editions of When Knighthood Was in Flower and an autographed photograph of John Philip Sousa...