Word: riot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost completely without imagination, and one feels that its situations would have been howled off the stage when Mr. B. F. Keith himself was in his prime. Before the film has run its course we witness the scene of the expectant father in the hospital anteroom, the carnival riot when all the members of the troupe shout their riot cry to start things moving, and a fire with Lee Tracy's little boy supposedly locked in a box within the flaming tents. Another explanation of the mediocrity of the picture may be that the theatre believes that a dull setting...
...world's biggest prison population. Only way the Board could make room for new prisoners was to shunt old ones out as fast as they could. Meantime those remaining stirred like cattle squeezed in a ship's hold. A score had lately been sent to dungeons for riot & rebellion. Pondering their problem, the boardmen and Secretary Mark Noon adjourned to Warden James B. Holohan's house for lunch...
Actors Laye and Novarro sing pleasant but unremarkable Sigmund Romberg-Oscar Hammerstein II songs, one of which begins: "There's a riot in Havana, a famine in Tibet, a quake in Yokohama. ..." The Night Is Young would probably be less dull if Edward Everett Horton and Charles Butterworth were given more elbowroom for their dependable buffooneries. Driving Miss Laye through the streets in a pouring rain, Butterworth sneezes, says, "Well, the suspense is over now-I know I'm catching cold...
...work undertaken should be useful. . . . Compensation . . . should be ... larger than the amount now received as a relief dole but ... riot so large as to encourage the rejection of opportunities for private employment. . . . Projects should be undertaken on which a large percentage of direct labor can be used. Preference should be given to those projects which will be self-liquidating. . . . Projects . . . should be selected . . . to compete as little as possible with private enterprises...
...most critics Stravinsky was most inspired during the four Paris years that followed. His Firebird was a blaze of color, marvelously decorative in every detail. Year later came Petroitchka, with Nijinsky enacting the poor sawdust puppet who briefly had a soul. In that exuberant work woodwinds ran riot and to many they seemed altogether tuneless...