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Because the story has no place to go, it stops whenever it has an opportunity for a song, a gag, an auto chase or a rough-&-tumble fight. Near the end of all the nonsense, Ann Dvorak puts on a ballet, purporting to be about Montezuma but looking something like a barroom engraving of Custer's Last Stand. Although the ballet seems to have been elaborately and lavishly staged, the camera gives it only a routine glance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

...radiation with heliotrope devotion for 49 years. Twenty-five years ago he began to take daily recordings of solar heat. The Smithsonian set up delicate measuring instruments on three mountaintops in desert areas which averaged 300 cloudless days a year-Table Mountain, Calif., Burro Mountain, N. Mex. and Mt. Montezuma, Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sun Rays and Weather | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Friday Evening May 14 Overture to "Mignon" "The Ride of the Valkyrion" Gorshwinian, Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies Saturday Evening, May 15 "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (After a Ballad of Goethe) "Marche Slave" Fantasia" Aida" Salute to Our Fighting Forces Arranged by Halls of Montezuma-Semper Army Air Corps-Anchors As the Caissons Go Rolling Along God Bless America Sunday Evening, May 16 Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3 Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Streets of Pekin (Chinese Impressions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pops Weekend | 5/14/1943 | See Source »

...Gatos, Calif., 19 "junior statesmen" were graduated from the Montezuma Mountain School last fortnight. They were the second crop sponsored by the Junior Statesmen of America, an enterprising organization with chapters in 25 California high schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Junior Statesmen | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...well-endowed Junior Statesman School (the brain child of Montezuma's smart headmaster, Ernest Andrew Rogers) is no ordinary civics course but a working experiment in grown-up democratic politics. Back in their own high schools, Montezuma's moppet statesmen organize chapters along the lines of their State government, pitch into local politics when and where they can. Typical project: In Long Beach, Junior Statesmen originated and pushed through the fingerprinting of the whole town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Junior Statesmen | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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