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Word: ganges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dwarf village followed by a herd of friendly elephants. The elephants trample the village to bits and Tarzan disposes of the gorilla. Cinemaddicts will be aided in their understanding of this turn of events by recalling the recent cycle of gangster pictures. The elephants and apes are Tarzan's gang; at the end of the picture Jane Parker has become the moll of the organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Pictures: Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

Died. Agnew Thomson Dice, 69, president of Reading Co. (railroad); of heart disease while returning from the theatre with his wife aboard a street car; in Philadelphia. Self-made, he obtained his first job (flagman of a section gang) from the late President Rea of Pennsylvania R. R., then a track supervisor. He joined the Reading in 1897, became president in 1918. White House Physician Joel Thompson Boone is his nephew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 4, 1932 | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

When the tumult and the shouting has died away, it is easy enough for the sophisticated cynics to make out that this gang or that one had the party's nominee all picked out in advance, that they were simply awaiting the strategic moment before opening the paddock gate and trotting out the winner. Harding, for example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Presidential Possibilities For 1932 | 3/29/1932 | See Source »

...Theodore Von Eltz) who hopes to retrieve some money which he cached in a fireplace long before. He experiences some trouble getting it because there is a party in the suite where it is hidden and because his accomplice turns out to be a lady member of a rival gang of thieves. She betrays him but regrets it, in time to persuade him to risk a reformation. Produced by a small company with an inexpensive cast, cheap sets and a trick story, the film is fair entertainment and should be even fairer as an investment for its makers. Good shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 28, 1932 | 3/28/1932 | See Source »

...admirable members of the police department of an anonymous city are destroyed in their effort to capture one small nest of desperadoes who are handicapped by drink. Nor is this the only respect in which malfeasance is shown to have advantages over civic virtue. The members of the gang are able to associate with Jean Harlow which, to a village audience, should sufficiently excuse their defections. The chief of police has vowed to sanitate the town and he is well on his way to do so when his young brother (Wallace Ford), Cajoled by Jean Harlow, neglects the obligations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 21, 1932 | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

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