Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be impractical for the Emperor of India to intervene in this most delicate Hindu matter but last week His Highness Sir Rama Varma, Maharaja of Travancore celebrated his 24th birthday by issuing a proclamation hailed as the most important Hindu reform in almost a millennium...
ELIZABETH FRY-Janet Whitney-Little, Brown ($3.50). Sedate biography of a wealthy Quaker social worker whose reform of Newgate Prison inspired Florence Nightingale, turned the notorious prison into a side show for fashionable spectators, hastened the repeal of laws under which Henry VIII had hanged 72,000 English citizens a year for robbery alone...
...redeeming feature of the second movie, "Accusing Finger" is that it can be avoided. It is a death house drama involving the reform of a cold-blooded public prosecutor. Those who go to see "Wedding Present" should plan carefully to miss this dull affair...
...civitarians generally gave the new chapter vigorous support. Bitterly Tammany assailed it and redoubled its efforts particularly against a second proposition on the voting machines, providing that members of the new City Council should be elected by proportional representation. Even "bigger-than-Tammany" Al Smith, stout proponent of Charter reform, sided with his fellows against proportional representation, an issue on which Tammany felt it was fighting for its life...
...Give My Life" is pure melodrama at the end of which there should not be a dry eye in the audience. Tom Brown and Francis Drake are two love-birds who work in a gangsters' nigh-club. Comes a reform governor who cracks down on the underworld, and in self-defense the gangster suddenly reveals that Tom is his son, and that Tom's mother, believing him dead, is now the wife of the governor. Father and son square off, and Tom shoots down the dirty dog. Tom allows himself to be led to the gallows, refusing to tell...