Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Italy the King & Queen and Crown Prince & Crown Princess entertained the Görings, and this week they were to holiday briefly in romantic Capri, always a magnet for sentimental German tourists. In the interval, boastful henchmen talked openly of "forcing the resignation" of Jewish-Socialist French Premier Leon Blum, next "detaching" France from her Soviet alliance, and finally "restoring" Britain, Germany, France and Italy to comradeship under the big tent of II Duce's recently quiescent Four-Power-Pact (TIME, April 10, 1933 et seq.). They bragged as if there were of course enough Might handy...
...Stalin is Dictator by virtue of his office as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Russia, finds it convenient to let Molotov be Premier and Kalinin President, as these offices are completely dwarfed by his power...
...China's Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, having retired to his birthplace near the coast and refused to use the telephone or open letters or telegrams for a fortnight (TIME, Jan. 18), was joined last week by Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang (who recently kidnapped the Premier and released him on Christmas Day) for nice long talks in which many Chinese generals joined. Thus the kidnappee & kidnapper sought to exercise in Chiang's village birthplace a joint moral and political leadership of China, seemingly with the intention that Chinese capitalists in the coastal cities and the more or less...
Lady Houston expressed in her magazine an uncritical admiration for Benito Mussolini, "the greatest Ruler in the World today," and for Adolf Hitler. To her, neither of these somewhat frightening characters could do wrong, nor could such standpatters as Canada's rich and pious Richard Bedford Bennett, onetime Premier...
...considerably hampered by its hackneyed plot, or rather lack of plot, "More Than a Secretary is a better than average comedy, due principally to the efforts of the amazing Miss Arthur. By virtue of her work in "The Ex-Mrs. Bradford," she acquired the reputation of being Hollywood's premier comedienne, and her laurels are in no danger...