Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resembles a roller coaster ride through a kaleidoscope to the accompaniment of a swing band. Actually, it is a 400-foot (half a reel) short, translating into the terms of color and movement a rumba played by the Lecuona Cuban Boys and Honolulu Blues, a swing classic played by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Very unobtrusive is the function for which it will be released by Britain's General Post Office Film Unit- to advertise Imperial Airways. About ten years of experimenting and five previous color productions† helped make Color Flight an intensely exhilarating work of cinemart...
...Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, was released last spring by MGM. In Len Lye's new and slicker film, the hot music not only is heard but appears as a complex, fast-changing pattern of brightly or subtly colored shapes. Simultaneous with the trumpet notes of Red Nichols' solo a vertical ribbon of cold green light vibrates on the screen, sways against a violet background. Drum beats appear as expanding dark blobs and are wiped away. A piano solo sprinkles the screen with mercurial, pearly beads...
...Secretary of War knew of the impending battle between the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants for the championship of the Eastern Division of the National (professional) Football League. In fact, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Postmaster General Jim Farley and RFC Chairman Jesse Jones were among the red-feathered Washington in vaders...
...invest some of his profits in a professional football team (Boston Redskins) six years ago, he brought many innovations into the twelve-year-old National Football League. It was his idea to divide the league into two divisions, have a post-season play-off for the championship. He introduced red satin trousers for his players, entertainment at intermission. But Bostonians were apathetic to Showman Marshall's ideas. After dropping $85,000 there, he transplanted his Redskins in Washington last year...
...Rugged, red-faced James Norris is a rich Chicago grain broker, noted for his smart trading. He also owns the Detroit Red Wings (major-league hockey club). Last week when the Red Wings lost their seventh game out of nine this season, it was too much for Owner Norris. Dipping into his gold-lined jeans, he persuaded the league-leading Boston Bruins to sell Goaltender Cecil ("Tiny") Thompson for $15,000 (highest price ever paid for a goalie). No less shocked than hockey fans was Tiny Thompson (so named because he is so big), who had been with the Bruins...