Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slums & Horse Parks. As WPA extends from storm sewers to nursery schools, so the interests and adaptabilities of Harry Lloyd Hopkins are equally diverse. He is at home in the slums, planning improvements, and in his rich friends' boxes at race tracks, picking winners. He can talk with equal charm to dear old ladies and to glamor girls, can sit with groups of serious thinkers, or join the boys in the back room. Since he got rid of his stomach ulcer last December and recuperated at Ambassador Joe Kennedy's house in Palm Beach...
...Going to be Rich (Twentieth Century-Fox). Since a British comedienne named Gracie Fields has for the past few years been the reputedly highest paid cinemactress in the world, U. S. cinemaddicts may wonder: 1) why Fields pictures have never been exhibited in the U. S.; 2) why British audiences find her so funny. This first of three Fields pictures which Twentieth Century-Fox plans to make in its Pinewood studios, begs the first question but answers the second. An uproarious, rough & tumble comedy about life before the turn of the Century in the gold camps of South Africa...
Director Monty Banks and a heterogeneous cast of minor actors have imparted energy, humor and color to a riotous flow of incident. We're Going to be Rich, however, is made really tops by the superb assurance-acquired before innumerable real audiences in London and provincial theatres-with which Miss Fields does her specialties. High point of the picture: the Fields rendering of a Boer folk song, Vat Jon Goed en Trek, Ferreira (Pack Up and Go, Ferreira), as a request number in a Johannesburg dive...
Reasons for the swelling anti-Semitism in Italy are obvious: 1) the firming friendship with Nazi Germany; 2) the suspicion in the mind of Sig. Mussolini that rich Jews have been skimping recently on their contributions to the Empire; 3) Sig. Mussolini's opposition to Freemasonry. Bolshevism, speculation in foreign exchange, in all three of which he suspects Jews of being active; 4) his fear that a Jewish national home in Palestine (see p. 18) would make the Mediterranean less Roman. He would like to solve the Zionist question by transferring the Zionists from Palestine to Ethiopia. Then...
Died. Mabelle Horlick Sidley, 61, daughter of the late William Horlick (founder of the Horlick Malted Milk Corp.); of brain edema; in the home of rich and eccentric Toronto Attorney William Perkins Bull, where she had resided for the past year. Three days later died Widow Horlick, 88, from shock, in Racine...