Word: provinciale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The conferees included all the great Provincial Governors?hitherto semiautonomous "War Lords" in their own districts?and was chairmanned by the Nationalist conqueror of all China, spry, slender little Marshal Chiang Kai-shek who is now President.
Though meagre and defective, "Conductor Abie's" victory may serve as an opening wedge. Even more significant as a sign of growing British jazz consciousness was the installation, last week, of "phonograph kiosks" in the waiting rooms of several London and provincial railway stations.
Other lacerations, savage, made the Senator all gory and unrecognizable as he crawled from the wrecked limousine. His nose was broken. Prudent, cool-headed and courageous, he insisted upon being rushed by train to Paris as soon as a provincial doctor had cleaned and bound his wounds. At home, in...
Plot: The pious folk of a Russian provincial town fiendishly conspire against a kindly atheist professor of zoology and his wife (Mme. Lunacharsky). The professor is expelled from his post, after the Christians "frame" him in such fashion as to make it appear that he is a pervert. Reduced to...
British Cinema. The two largest organizations in British cinema last week merged to form a $70,000,000 unit controlling some 300 British theatres. Gaumont British Corporation acquired control of Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd. Gaumont has been both producer and exhibitor; Provincial is solely an exhibition chain. Gaumont has a...