Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been able to surpass this, but for Orator Hitler in his bellowing frenzy of last week the job was easy. "I am indifferent," he cried, "to compliments, threats, warnings, disrespect or disapproval. With trance-like surety, I go the way on which Destiny guides me. . . . Therefore, with His grace. I will act for the Germans and their interests. . . . Nobody shall tell me there is such and such an international institution that I must respect...
Columbia's Victor Shertzinger writes songs (his bestseller: Marcheta) and directs Grace Moore's pictures. He began his musical career as a boy violinist, toured with Nordica, Sembrich, Calve. As a director he made 21 of the old Charles Ray comedies. But composing was more to his liking. He does most of his work on his pipe organ at home, tries his tunes out on his daughter Paula...
Case of Clyde Griffiths (by Erwin Piscator & Lena Goldschmidt; Group Theatre & Milton Shubert, producers). Thirty years ago an errant youth of Cortland, N.Y. named Chester Gillette took his sweetheart, Grace Brown, out in a rowboat, drowned her because Grace was pregnant and Chester wanted to marry a rich girl. For a generation Chester Gillette's crime and punishment were forgotten by the outside world until Theodore Dreiser exhumed the case, wrote a wordy but exhaustive novel about it called An American Tragedy. Since 1926 the Dreiser story of "Clyde Griffiths' " downfall has become a sort of national institution...
Hardly a summer goes by now without some impatient young criminal providing the Press with an "American Tragedy Murder." Paramount filmed the story in 1931, subsequently defending itself against one suit brought by Mr. Dreiser because the company had "vivisected" his work, another brought by Grace Brown's mother, who claimed she had been libeled. A U.S. playwright made a melodrama out of the story. A pair of French playwrights made it a character study. A Russian playwright made it a text for Bolshevism. But no adapters have departed so radically from the novel or achieved so exciting...
...Watertown, Wis., Arthur E. ("Turkey") Gehrke, 50, worked behind the bar at his tavern for the first winter in 23 years. Ever since 1913 Gehrke had made a practice of going to bed about Thanksgiving, dozing out the winter, arising about Easter. Last month his wife Grace dropped dead while reading a newspaper. "Turkey" Gehrke had to come out of hibernation to attend her funeral, take care of his business...