Word: richelieu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the books offered by the publishers for Presidential reading: biographies of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Richelieu, Andrew Jackson, Queen Elizabeth, Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roosevelt, Marie Antoinette; autobiographies of Clarence Darrow, Lincoln Steffens, Alice B. Toklas; Beveridge and the Progressive Era, The War of Independence, The Grain Race, Stars Fell on Alabama, Of Thee I Sing, poems of Archibald MacLeish, Diego Rivera's Portrait of America, The New Dealers, Farewell to Reform, Vols. 3, 4 & 5 of Mark Sullivan's Our Times, Yachts Under Sail, Tobacco Road, Obscure Destinies, Union Square, One More Spring, Rabble in Arms...
...prospectors still ride dusty, neat-footed burros, while at Santa Monica mechanics in the Douglas plant build some of the world's fastest passenger planes. To California William Randolph Hearst brings Old World treasures by the carload; at his San Simeon estate third-rate cinemactors sleep in Cardinal Richelieu's ornate bed. In California lunch rooms are built like igloos, puppies, derby hats. At California Institute of Technology work Nobel Prize-winning Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and Physicist Robert Millikan. California has more medical quacks than any state in the Union. It righteously keeps Tom Mooney in jail...
...releasing through? United Artists is Darryl Zanuck's lively year-old 20th Century. Toothy, excitable little Producer Zanuck plays much polo, squeaks at his teammates in the same shrill tones he uses in story conferences. He likes bombastic entertainment, pictures with high pitch. The Zanuck touch should improve Cardinal Richelieu with George Arliss; Jack London's Call of the Wild; Ronald Colman in Clive of India; The Mighty Barnum, with Wallace Beery in the title role. Samuel Goldwyn, who usually spends and sometimes makes more out of his pictures than any other producer in Hollywood, plans two more Anna Sten...
...Colonial--Walter Hampden in "Richelieu"; at the Hollis--Irene Purcell in "Biography"; at the Metropolitan--"Twenty Million Sweethearts"; at Loew's State--"Viva Villa...
...unnecessary to assure the addicts of Belloc biographies that this one charges along with the same speed and color as the rest, with the same impatient snorts at contrary opinions. It is not up to the standards of "Wolsey" and "Richelieu" and "Robespierre" because it is a much shorter work, and forms part of a popular biographical series of somewhat less than scholarly pretensions. But the Belloc flavor is only limited, not essentially impaired...