Word: get
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Give a Million (Twentieth Century-Fox). When word gets around the Riviera that a millionaire in tramp's clothing has 1,000,000 francs to bestow for one kind deed, a wave of benevolence envelops every mudlark and ragamuffin in the South of France. But to the real millionaire (Warner Baxter) a pretty circus performer (Marjorie Weaver) is most kind, and nobody doubts who is to get the million. Result: a comic-opera Riviera, almost but not quite a lively, amusing farce...
...house painter, said that he could not see what all the excitement was about, since it did not look as if there was any money in it. Teacher Bibel was divided between his pride in Alfred's progress and his fear that the boy might get a swelled head...
...told that while the opera was being written, Librettist Zweig, worried by Nazi growls, suggested that they call the whole thing off, that Strauss get himself another librettist acceptable to the German authorities. In reply to Librettist Zweig's suggestion, white-haired Strauss wrote a long letter. In it he expressed his contempt for the Nazis, and his hunch that by the time the opera was completed they would be out of power anyhow. The letter was addressed to Zweig in Vienna, but Zweig did not receive it. At the Austrian border, Nazi officials opened the letter and read...
...many a listener, it seemed to be news that George Gershwin was the creator of three fairly recent movie tunes, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Love Walked In-all played under the title of Hollywood Medley. Smash hit of the evening was poised, satin-voiced Negro Maxine Sullivan, singing Nice Work and Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) from memory. The rest of the vocalists, apparently under some pernicious radio influence, had not bothered to learn their songs, so that the Lyn Murray Chorus sounded ludicrous in the insinuating verses...
Early one day this week, when the chatter about the Hughes flight had dwindled to tabloid speculation over when where or whether Howard Hughes would wed Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, off again was Corrigan, his crate loaded with 320 gallons of gasoline, apparently headed for home to get his nickel back. But instead of heading West, the blind nose of his old ship aimed East, picked up the Lindbergh trail. Year before he had applied for permission to attempt an ocean night, but the Bureau of Air Commerce cracking down on stunt flying, refused...