Word: rapidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thought Miss Rita Rio's tapdancing and moanin' low rated her a larger role, just as we tired of goggleeyed Cantor; but judged on the basis of a Cantor picture, this one seemed highly successful. Its rapid sequence of situations, each a bit funnier than its predecessor, and the sustained continuity of the melodramatic plot--rare in musical pictures--give to the picture enough fun and excitement to merit it the attention of even lukewarm Cantor addicts...
...That" was a heavy curtain which had fallen backstage at the Locust Street Theatre, where Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was addressing some 1,600 employes of Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. Informed that a mere curtain had caused the disturbance, Mayor Wilson remarked: "I thought it was some of those gunmen...
...been completed, that they should disband. Aligned with the Mayor was Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten, 47-year-old son of the late Thomas Eugene Mitten, who managed P. R. T. from 1911 until his death in 1929. Opposed to them was P. R. T.'s President Ralph Townsend ("Rapid Transit") Senter, who thought that the trustees had done a good job, should be continued in office. Since P. R. T. was before Federal Judge George A. Welsh on an application for 77-6 reorganization, the Court remained the final authority on the direction...
...immigrant family after their conversion to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They covered the last thousand miles westward on foot. David Eccles prospered, founding one of the Northwest's great lumber companies, later branching into beet-sugar, banks, insurance, rapid transit. Before he died in 1912 he persuaded Son Marriner to accept his church's "call." Two early years of Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles' life were spent in Scotland in the frock coat and silk hat of a Mormon missionary...
...longer-so-nervous reader forms the opinion that Kenneth Patchen is a poeticule. Twelve years ago Nathalia Crane was a child prodigy. Only daughter of an unremarkable Brooklyn couple, she published her first book of "poetry" (The Janitor's Boy) when she was 10. Thereafter, in fairly rapid succession, she wrote and published three more books of verse, a stilted novel. An unknown benefactor offered to send her abroad and put her through college if she would not publish anything more until after graduation. Last week, now 22 and a graduate of Columbia University's Barnard College, onetime...