Word: mannering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Producer Samuel Goldwyn's wild-eyed press-agentry dispatched a telegram in his name to Mr. Mohamed Amine Youssef, Egyptian Minister in Washington inquiring rates and conditions for advertising on the Pyramids to be used "in a dignified manner to announce the coming world release of The Adventures Of Marco Polo...
...They fought for the right to rule, she fought for the right to love," and "The Prisoner of Zenda" lends itself to the screen in a manner that will not embarrass lovers of Anthony Hope's famous novel. Though we are given a touching and absorbing love story, as the picture unfolds, its spirit of high adventure and not its love sequences is what makes it a top notch film...
...chapter in the history of Massachusetts. This fact makes all the more deplorable the recent disaffection of a number of prominent Republicans in Ward 5. Basing their action on a personal quarrel of ten years' standing they have put personal sentiment before the good of the city in a manner which the average voter will do well to avoid. There is absolutely no evidence that Nichols is anything but what his record declares him to be, an honest Republican whose ability and experience render him preeminently worthy of the office of mayor...
...companion feature is entitled "Dear Miss Aldrich," and, strangely enough, it succeeds in being almost funny at times. Edna May Oliver stretches her face to unprecedented longitudinal dimensions, Maureen O'Sullivan glides along in a manner that is just too, too demure, and the audience seemed to enjoy themselves in a mild way. "Dear Miss Aldrich" tells the tale of a girl's fight for recognition in a newspaper man's world; it is not recommended for consumption unless the reader is feeling in a particularly receptive mood...
When Franklin Roosevelt announced a program of increased power production to lower power rates, Utilityman Ross stormed up & down the Northwest denouncing this as faulty theory, declaring that the cost of power distribution rather than production is what makes rates high. Liking the forthright Ross manner, President Roosevelt put him on the SEC to take care of utility restriction & registration. As administrator of Bonneville. he will have charge both of producing and of marketing power...