Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, the Loyalist Government arranged with France to use the sizable gold holdings it still has in Paris to pay for part of the refugees' expenses in France...
...assembled by the New York political club of that name to pay off its debts (at $25 a plate) and perform an act (hooked up to the nation by radio for two hours) called "Victory Through Unity." All the newly-elected Republican Governors and Senators were to have taken part. Other Lincoln's Birthday engagements at home detained several eligibles, but the Grand Ballroom resounded with self-congratulation and party hope, and plenty of Republican renascents held forth. They were toastmastered by Illinois' heroic young C. Wayland ("Curley") Brooks, unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1936, who looks...
There were 13 counts against Lawyer Barriobero, ranging from accusations that he took part in the assault on the Montana Barracks in Madrid and that he helped sack a Madrid convent, to the fact that he was a militant 33rd-degree Mason. Summed up Captain Jose Rodriguez, the military prosecutor...
...that of Massenet's sin-shunning Thais. Because dramatic sopranos with decently strippable figures are rare, and because Massenet's music and drama are otherwise soupy and dull, Thais is nowadays seldom performed. Greatest of all Thais strippers was famed Diva Mary Garden, who introduced the part to the U. S. in 1907; last at Manhattan's Metropolitan was tempestuous Maria Jeritza, 13 years ago. Last week the Metropolitan revived Thais, in one of the most lavishly costumed productions of its recent years. This time the stripper was Helen Jepson, streamlined Pennsylvania-born soprano. Critics approved Soprano...
Luckily the leading parts are not so affected by Hollywood cutting as are some of the minor ones. Clark Gable, as the philosophical hoofer, Harry Van, gives one of the best performances of his career, since the part is ideally suited to his happy-go-lucky Americanism. Because she modeled her Russian Countess entirely too much on Lynn Fontanne's characterization, Norma Shearer is not so successful. Her Irene lacks the spontaneity of Gable's Harry Van. Yet with all its short-comings, "Idiot's Delight" is sustained by its immediacy of theme and powerful conflict of points of view...