Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intricacy of the plot, however, is not the main reason for the success of "Care Metropole", all honors go to Mr. Power and Miss Young. Making the most of an amusing script and excellent situations, the two turn in performances that will make picture goers look forward to another film with the same team in the near future. "Cafe Metropole" is entertainment fit for the consumption of a not too discriminating audience. Best shot -- Loretta "Smarty Pants" Young in pajamas...
...Main trend of the industry in 1937 and 1938 will be to spend money. By bringing in huge initial receipts, elaborate pictures like Maytime, Lost Horizon, A Star is Born have encouraged producers, never inclined to be pennywise, to spend stockholders' funds more freely than ever. Minor trends will be toward even more musicals, most of them frivolous rather than operatic; fewer child stars. Color will continue to progress slowly. In the next year, Hollywood will produce a total of 700 feature pictures...
...main difficulties were getting the right people to talk (the wrong ones talked too much), getting permission to visit such points of interest as Southern coal mines, Butte copper mines. Artist and writer acquaintances talked freely but about two most vital subjects, Southern history and Negroes, they seemed "inhuman, almost mad." When he asked permission to go down in a coal mine the owner said: "We are only one company, and we don't wish to monopolize this gentleman's time. Why don't you go to another company and ask them to show you their mines...
...late ith Century piracy was a flourishing business-not only in the Spanish Main but off the North American coast, in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the East Indies. And the line between pirate and privateer was as thin as the line between hijacker and bootlegger. The scheme that led Captain Kidd to the gallows, according to Author Wilkins, was a technically legal venture in privateering. And it was not Kidd's idea in the first place. Robert Livingstone of Albany and Lord Bellomont, Governor of New York, concocted the scheme, got Kidd a letter of marque...
...grey fedora, picked up his brief case and set out for the yards of Minneapolis & St. Louis R. R. It was Mr. Abbott's duty to put that dilapidated 1,600-mi. railroad on the auction block. By court order he was to offer the road at "the main entrance of the division superintendent's office at the Cedar Lake Shops." Arriving at the precise spot on the second floor of a grimy yellow brick building, white-crowned old Master Abbott pulled out a bound document, adjusted his pince-nez, began to read aloud to himself. Sixteen times...