Word: minority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Silesia south to Vienna and thus provide a direct and short motor connection between the eastern part of Germany and the recently-acquired Ostmark.* The road, to be completed in 1940, is the first section of a great highway which Germany intends to push through the Balkans into Asia Minor, via Belgrade, Sofia and Istanbul, as part of her drive to the East. Along the Czechoslovak strip, police, customs and traffic control will be in German hands. The two parts of Czechoslovakia will be connected by tunnels and overpasses. >So completely has Czechoslovakia come under German authority that last week...
...fact that it is utterly implausible. A squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, ex-farmer, cavalry officer and economist. Producer Pascal's best previous contribution to cinema was Franz Lehar's Frederica. His reward for the ripple of applause which it aroused in 1932 was a succession of minor jobs producing shorts...
Odets was an original but minor member of the Group. He never played important parts; in 1932, when he wrote Awake and Sing! he was an understudy. The Group, unimpressed, produced one act of the play privately at its summer theatre. Later, when a Left organization, New Theatre League, wanted a short play for Sunday night showings, Odets fished up Waiting for Lefty, which he had once written in three days...
...glance at the billing shows the Ritz Brothers to be featured in the minor picture, but this should not prejudice any except the most violent anti-Ritzists against the program as a whole. Only a few very dull sequences have found their way into this latest, horsey attempt, and there are a few funny ones; but even if it were entirely dull, the feature would fully compensate. It was no accident that the title of Deanna Durbin's "That Certain Age" was taken from a song Ann Rutherford sang in "Love Finds Andy Hardy." This newest vehicle for Miss Durbin...
Considering the handicaps besetting the Federal Theatre projects, one must be lenient of minor details, for, all in all, there is no denying that this revival of "Dr. Faustus" is a worthwhile addition to the current drama...