Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...political partics allow vestiges of Jim Crowism to hang on within then? We may be equalitarian, but Negroes can't vote in many parts of the country; we may be democratic, but how many hotels allow colored guests; we may be free, but why do most talented Negro artists live in virtual poverty? Why--why --why--over and over again the words to the song din that question into the cars of those who have listened to it--why a people must be submitted to the physical and moral subjugation that makes its songs temples of gloom and misery...
...also courting box office defeat. Fortunately, by the grace of the gods and the acting of Bette Davis, "Dark Victory" is no defeat, although it is a rather dark victory. After all, watching some sleezy little minx whooping it up with only ten months to live is not exactly riotous entertainment, and when mixed with some funereal acting by George Brent and a new triple-threat Cleopatra named Geraldine Fitzgerald breaking into tears at the slightest provocation, the total effect becomes rather depressing. In fact those who may go for relaxation after a three-hour Sanskrit exam may become...
...stroke the Ambassador had undone half the damage done by his U. S.-born wife, and set a standard for press relations which his successor, brilliant, erratic Lord Lothian, who used to be Prime Minister Lloyd George's Private Secretary Philip Henry Kerr, will have to live up to when he comes to take over the Embassy this summer...
...Long live our noble King. God save our King...
...flashed on American screens. Admitted, there is no racy romance, no screwball comedy in "The Edge of the World," but there is emotional strength and intellectual escape. The sterling quality of the film, lifting the audience out of itself, sweeping it on to a dynamic climax, make the picture live up to the greatest traditions of true entertainment...