Word: pace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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City Streets (Paramount). Critics may some day, examining the gangster films of 1931, find them significant as perpetuations of a culture which the more self- conscious art-expressions of the day have rejected. For here, in realistic terms, brutalized in content and set going at a breathless pace, are stories and people that are Victor Hugo's stepchildren, many of them highly likeable and articulated with fine ingenuity. In this picture, why does Sylvia Sidney tie her arm in a black sling when her father telephones her to meet him on the corner "if she has to break...
...Surrender, Dear and Sing Song Girl (Columbia)-Mickie Alpert presents ingenious arrangements with Helen Rowland singing the first in a pleasing, husky way. I'm Happy When You're Happy and Maybe I'm in Love With a Dream (Brunswick)-Good tunes played with smooth, steady pace by Tom Gerun. By My Side and I'm So Afraid of You (Victor)-Bert Lown's saxophones make this Victor's best dance record of the month. By the River Sainte Marie and Running Between the Rain-Drops (Columbia)- Guy Lombardo pushes the manner which...
...Russell Eugene Gardner of St. Louis formed Banner Buggy Co. out of which grew Gardner Motor Co. In 1924 Russell Eugene Gardner Jr. replaced his father in the driver's seat as president, attempted to quicken Gardner's pace by abandoning fours for sixes and eights. But Gardner's sales have shrunk, its fuel reserve of cash has been drained to almost nothing, for four years it has operated at a loss. Motor men do not blame Gardner's withdrawal on poor driving so much as on the difficulty for any small producer to survive because of high production costs...
...three crews were neck and neck in the first few minutes of the heat when Crew B set up a fast pace, followed by its opponents. Crew B led the other two for the remaining period, finishing slightly ahead of Crew A and a full length ahead of Crew D. On the return up the river Coach Sullivan shifted the strokes of the three crews...
...into groups of four which meet once every two weeks for the rest of the work. Next year more sections will be organized, with only 20 men in a section, and there will be more individual conferences. "This system will allow the exceptional men to go at their own pace," he pointed out, "while the men of less than average ability will have their problems more carefully worked out than they other- wise could, even in a small group...