Word: replica
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a cast of 175, including 50 dancers, which is made up of "cafe society," laborers, shop girls, chorines, office workers, and others. Dominated by an overhanging replica of an El, the scenes shift from drawing-rooms to manholes, street corners, Central Park, bars, offices, and stores. Music and dancing fill some of these scenes in addition to those which are purely dramatic...
Capra has not sacrificed entertainment for his "message." The cast is superb, headed by James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, and Edward Arnold. The Senate set is a perfect replica of the Washington chamber, but best of all are the shots taken in the Lincoln Memorial, the real thing this time...
...matter of fact Harvard is more like a nursery than it is like the Wide World. It is a nursery of talent where every mistake but that of inactivity is condoned. If you throw yourself into the life at Harvard, a small replica of the world, personal and academic errors of judgment will not be too serious because of the arena's small size. But if you wait for a mythical stamp of Harvard to be impressed on you its life will pass you by. This is so because there is no recognizable pattern here, no definite ideal to conform...
...Roman Catholic Church one evening last week, leaning on a cane. Her dragging left foot was supported in a steel brace. After services in the church, Mrs. Geraci and some 500 other worshippers followed Father Pasquale T. Lombardo to St. Lucy's new, $10,000 outdoor shrine, a replica of the famed grotto at Lourdes. Mrs. Geraci went to the shrine's pool, fed by city water trickling over big rocks below a statue of the Virgin...
...characteristics similar to those of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, etc." and for similar feminine paragons, Gateway to Hollywood got 40,000 applicants, 8,000 of whom were auditioned in 23 U. S. cities. "John Archer" is Ralph Bowman of Lincoln, Neb., 24, in looks a genteel replica of Max Baer. "Alice Eden" is Rowena Cook, 20, of New York City. Both winners received long-term contracts...