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Telling you all the hilarious things you will find in "Carnival in Flanders" at the Fine Arts would be impossible in the short space at hand. This piece, produced in France as "La Kermesse Heroique," won the Grand Prix du Cinema Francais, and the Venice International Exposition Gold Medal. And it richly deserves them...
Columbia Broadcasting System declined to make public the amounts of its bills for political broadcasting but the grand total of the two big systems and their smaller competitors will probably be between $1,500,000 and $2,000,000. It will not be surprising if the Republican expenditures for the entire campaign run over $7,500,000, if Democratic expenditures run about $5,000,000. Many a voter may feel that this is a lot of money to spend on a campaign. It is spent, however, to pick a President who will last four years, a Congress which will last...
...ring and won the senior yearling blue ribbon and a $20 prize, returned to her pen and delivered another piglet, returned to the ring and won the senior championship and a $10 prize, returned to her pen and delivered piglet No. 13, returned to the ring and won the grand championship and another $10 prize...
...wild, grotesque humor. But unlike Journey to the End of the Night, it is compact and tightly-woven. the action taking place in 24 hours and the large cast of characters representing the main types of French provincial society at a moment of great tension. Conceived in the grand manner of pre-War fiction, with a gigantic mock-heroic central character and a host of petty Flaubertian supernumeraries, it is nevertheless modern in spirit, presents a picture of social anarchy that few readers are likely to forget...
Among Dunbar tenants who awaited the disposition of these matters were Tap Dancer Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson, Sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Esquire Cartoonist E. Simms Campbell, Admiral Peary's North Pole Companion Matthew Henson, Chief James Williams of Grand Central Station redcaps...