Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many a U. S. citizen assumes that, supposing England could be laid low by this stab in her economic vitals, Mr. Gandhi would then stop spinning and buy a decent suit of clothes from his Asiatic fellowmen, the Japanese. Not at all: a mistaken idea. Well, then, surely he would stop if he could put a wall around India, behind which Indians could set up their own efficient textile mills and produce cloth cheaper than it can ever be made by hand. By no means! The spinning crusade is an economic war, first against England, second against Japan, third against...
...expected that the translations of the dialogue, which, along with tickets, are now on sale at the Coop, Leavitt and Pierce's and Herrick's, will aid the audience in following the lively action of the Latin dramatist's comedy of mistaken identity...
...Queen Mary said a few last gracious words, then surprised her guests by walking straight at a wall consisting of a huge mirror in front of which stood a half table. Just when it seemed that the 62-year-old Queen Empress' eyesight must be failing, that she had mistaken the mirror for a passage, the whole contraption suddenly revolved, mirrored wall and table turning upon noiseless hinges, and Mary vanished into wonderland...
...Places (Fox). As a stage musical comedy in parody of modern sound pictures, Let's Go Places might be funny. In its present form it is an in credibly naive account of a young man's rise to Hollywood success. Its suspense is based on mistaken identity. Apparently its wandering scenario, on which an excellent cast is wasted, was designed principally as an introduction to ballet numbers which, though some of them are ingenious, do not show up in black and white on the small screen. Typical shot: a Holly wood party at which the male and female guests dance...
...those who do not know Latin well a translation has been prepared by E. C. Weist '30 and R. W. Hyde '30. The play, on which Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" is indirectly based, is a story of two twins, the Menaechmi, constantly being mistaken for each other; the farcial action can be followed by an audience not acquainted with the text...