Word: indias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern: "Clive of India," 9.05, 12.40, 4.10, 7.50. "Sweet Music...
Modern: "Clive of India," 9.05, 12.40, 4.10, 7.50. "Sweet Music...
...advent of spring were not sufficient in itself to divert attention to light amusements, the University Theatre reveals amazing persistence in presenting double bills of considerable attraction. "Clive of India" is a good film in its spectacular way, though it can hardly be said to be accurate history. The romantic story of the young clerk's rise from a desk to the domination of all India with its untold millions, has been dressed up in splendid clothes and given the proper Kiplingesque tone of magnificent imperialism. For cinematic purposes Miss Loretta Young has been given the vastly expanded role...
Since the British electorate also appears to favor Labor, which in turn explicitly favors unilateral British armament reduction and giving India her freedom; and since Labor has a fine fighting chance to win the next General Election, members of the National Government, as moderate Conservatives, felt last week that what seemed to them popular folly must be resisted to the last. In the teeth of the pinko-pacifist straw vote, his Majesty's Government hurled before the House of Commons defense budget estimates providing in the coming fiscal year 6% more money for the Navy, 10% more...
...writer who deals in facts, Author Feuchtwanger polishes his wares until they seem as valuable and glittering as new-minted coin. Title-story in this book is a compressed novelet (it covers 35 years in 29 pages) of the love affair between Warren Hastings, ruler of India, and a little German hausfrau. Others: the fatally successful altitude flight of a French airman; a bullfight seen through a German painter's eyes; an aging poet catches his death of cold in trying to show off before a hen-brained girl...