Word: langs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lords: ¶ Subjected the present National Government to its first defeat in the House of Lords by adopting, 32-to-29, a trivial amendment to the Education Bill opposed by His Majesty's Government but sponsored by the Most Reverend Father Cosmo Gordon Lang. His Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...
Easily the most arresting offering of the in-town screens is to be found at the Loew's State and Orpheum Theatres in the harrowingly powerful study of lynching which Fritz Lang has created in his picture "Fury." Hailed from all sides as the most significant film of the season it narrates with breath-taking vigor and insight the story of a young man innocently involved in the mad antics of an infuriated mob. Especially noteworthy are the scenes depicting the origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching...
...conscience drives him into court to undo his own reflection of the lynchers' fury. Reminiscent in its power of last year's famed Informer, though far more spectacular, a good deal less sincere, Fury is a triumph for Joseph Mankiewicz, young M-G-M producer, and Fritz Lang, monocled Austrian director (M), whose first U. S. effort...
...Cameras clicked rapidly while Frances A. Wister of the Orchestra Board presented Conductor Stokowski with a fox-terrier pup named Nipper. The New York Philharmonic players sent money to buy each of the travelers a beer. Led by Trumpeter Saul Caston, the Orchestra's brasses blew out Auld Lang Syne, played Anchors Aweigh for "all aboard." Thus the Philadelphia Orchestra was off last week on a five-week cross-country tour. By May 17, it will have traveled 11,113 miles, played in 27 cities, given 35 performances...
...story is the same as always. The kids drive the father half nuts because he is too strict with them. A couple of them get hurt, however, and in the throes of worry he repents and becomes the model pater familias. It is all entirely commonplace except for June Lang and Spring Byington...