Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...request of the Columbia Broad-casting System, the Band will broadcast a half-hour program over a nation-wide network from the ballroom of the Hotel Copley Plaza in Boston tomorrow afternoon. The concert is scheduled to begin at 2.30 o'clock...
...long-awaited "formula" has finally appeared in the quarrel between Yugo Slavia and Hungary. The latter nation, it seems, is to take action against the band of international terrorists within her borders yet she does not admit the existence of any such band. In this way all parties are satisfied, both of the involved governments are strengthened at home and peace reigns...
...Flirtation Walk (Warner). That patriotic fervor is an emotion only a shade less potent at the box office than mother love and Christian piety is a premise which the cinema has demonstrated periodically from The Birth of a Nation to The President Vanishes. Warner Brothers were quick to perceive that flag-waving is as well suited to light musicomedy as to serious drama. Flirtation Walk, made with "the full co-operation of the U. S. Army." is an animated advertisement for West Point, Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, and military discipline in general. In it, Dick Powell is the impudent private...
...Play. Historically, the Continental Army had its Golgotha in the winter of 1780 at Morristown, N. J. But the hardships endured at Valley Forge, two winters before, are popularly supposed to have enveloped the new nation's darkest hour. Equipment and supplies there were in plenty. But transport had completely broken down. Technically, General William Howe and his Red Coats were bottled up in Philadelphia, but Washington's little army of freedom was depleted by more than seasonal desertions. There were no victories. Trenton, Princeton and Saratoga were many months behind. Chased from one meeting place to another, a harried...
...picture. She is given Greta Garbo's eyes, Constance Bennett's hair, Myrna Loy's lips, Katharine Hepburn's nostrils, Norma Shearer's elbows, Claudette Colbert's knees, Marlene Dietrich's legs. The synthetic belle wins the prize and her creators are eating high off the hog until the nation's Press demands a look at the original. In desperation they dust off and beautify a love-loving chambermaid to fill their need. As the chambermaid happens to be impersonated by that sultry siren, Dorothy Hall, their task is not as difficult as it sounds. By the time the curtain...