Word: pompeii
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yugoslavia. "A second Pompeii!" was the exultant cry that went up in Belgrade from government archeologists who have been excavating the forgotten city of Stobi, founded by the Greeks 2,400 years ago, a beehive of art and learning under the Roman Empire. Already visible are gracious courtyards, marble fountains and swimming pools, a stone amphitheatre for gladiatorial contests seating 10,000, vivid blue, red, green and orange mosaics, the villa of a Roman governor. In the streets, laid bare by gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes...
...were money-making hits. In charge of RKO's 50 forthcoming pictures will be president Benjamin Bertram ("Bright Boy") Kahane. Most important on the production schedule for 1934-35: three Katharine Hepburn pictures (Joan of Arc, the Forsyte Saga, The Little Minister') ; Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii; Irene Dunne and John Boles in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence; Brian Aherne and Ann Harding in The Fountain and Franci: Lederer in The Three Musketeers...
...Pompeii: "No wonder God overwhelmed it with dust and ashes. I hope he'll do it again...
...Capitalist Samuel Insull but "to visit an antique shop"-presumably a disguised hideout for Trotsky Communists. When the ship reached Naples, Mr. Lubinsky dodged all but one persistent photographer (who snapped a view of the back of his hat), hurried ashore for a quick motor ride to Sorrento and Pompeii. Whisked through Marseilles by the police. Comrade Trotsky motored to Lyon. announced the subject of his Copenhagen lectures: "Just what is the Russian Revolution of October?" Reporters agreed that Comrade Trotsky is taking chances on his trip to Denmark. Germany still will not let him cross her frontiers. France...
...ward off suicidal despair Spengler recommends the psychological attitude of the Roman soldier who died at his post in Pompeii. When the volcano under civilization explodes, and the burning dust begins to descend, the more honorable Spenglerian carnivores will take it standing, polish up their buttons as the lava rises. With its men all dead but its honorable buttons bright, Western civilization can then rest forever on its yews...