Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...production. Sillman appears in it as a radio impresario teaching a claque how to laugh at bad jokes; as a romantic Negro taxi-starter who fancies himself as Emperor Jones; as a puppet who escapes from his strings and collapses with Pagliacci grimacings. New Faces lacks pace and polish, contains enough wit to make it good entertainment of its type...
...life, adapted from Gladys Hasty Carroll's novel, shows New England apple snatchers scratching at their arid meadows, bravely but without much recompense. One full year with the Shaw family and their neighbors makes rural life seem as lively as a cycle on Broadway. In the winter the Polish Janowskis move into the barn next door, Brother George Shaw's cow dies and Step-daughter Doris, who wants to go to Boston, yowls when told to stay at home. In the spring, young Jen Shaw (Jean Muir) falls in love with Stan Janowski (Donald Woods) and Brother George...
...pulled so many wires through her influential friends in Budapest and Vienna that Diaghilev finally permitted her to accompany the troupe on its tours as a ballet student. Nijinsky, then 22, had started dancing at three. His parents were extremely talented but because they were born on Polish territory they were never eligible for the Imperial Ballet. They toured the provinces, taking their three children with them. Sometimes they slept in peasant huts, sometimes in filthy hostelries, some-times in shabby theatres. Stanislav, the oldest son, fell from a third-story window, cracked his skull, stunted his intelligence. Father Nijinsky...
...morning last week Turnkey Sam Cahoon was distributing soap to the prisoners taking morning exercise. Suddenly, Dillinger's stick of wood, whittled into the shape of a pistol and blacked with shoe polish, poked into Turnkey Cahoon's back. Cowed by the wooden weapon, he yielded up the jail's keys, was forced to call the deputy sheriff, who called the warden. Within 15 minutes Dillinger had 33 trusties, prisoners, jailers, wardens and special guards locked securely in the cells...
Warsaw ordered Michael Moscicki, its minister to Japan, to explore trade possibilities and make a special report on the subject of Polish recognition of Manchukuo...