Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sauk Center & Plate of Gold...
Viennese Nights (Warner). On every costume plate and scene design used in making Viennese Nights appeared the work "Oksroh"-a word meaning that the article on which it was placed had been approved by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein, authors of the story and the music. Although this kind of supervision-a reaction from a period when the cinema was condemned for giving authors nothing to say at all-is merely a mannerism of the studio, the picture is satisfactory. It succeeds principally because of its music, on which Romberg and Hammerstein did not have to pass judgment since they...
...asking if you will kindly give me the post office address of Dr. Thomas O. Mabbott of Hunter College, who as I see by the article is an authority on Poe and his handwriting. I am past 81 years of age and have recently sold a pair of Sheffield plate candelabra to the Poe Shrine at Richmond, Va. (Miss) ELVA P. BARNEY...
...Socialist grabbed the Nationalist dog whip. Struggling and writhing the mass of embattled Deputies and journalists bore down upon a large plate glass door, shat tered the glass, broke through the wood work and spilled the entire scrimmage out onto the lawn of the Palais-Bourbon...
...Plate of Gold. When the U. S. special puffed into New Flower, a coal-black band with an olive-skinned conductor blared "The Star Spangled Banner." Amid a 17-gun salute Abyssinia's Crown Prince greeted the beaming U. S. Ambassador and his stern escort, Brig.-General William W. Harts, U. S. A. Smartly escorted by native cavalry the U. S. party clattered off to their hotel, dined there that night on the King of Kings' own gold plate, loaned for the occasion as an especial mark of Royal favor...