Word: robbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew, Commander Ellsberg (On the Bottom) has tried to make its terrors more oppressive by the device of having it told by Chief Engineer Melville as a first-hand observer. Not altogether successful, the device enables Commander Ellsberg to put hackneyed remarks in the mouths of the characters that rob the book of authority without making its people seem any more real. Not by means of stale jokes cracked by the doomed, but by the simple facts of their plight do readers gain a sense of the tragedy of the Jeannette...
NORTHWEST PASSAGE-Kenneth Rob-erts-Doubleday, Doran...
...Trovatore and La Bohème. In Faust pretty Hilda Burke made a pathetic, simple Marguerite, used her small voice conscientiously but not tragically. Leon Rothier, a veteran Mephistopheles, had most assurance and most art. Good-looking Donald Dickson made his Metropolitan debut as Valentine. Even nervousness could not rob him of the strong, clear baritone and fine dramatic sense that first made scouts notice him when he was a Pennsylvania steelworker...
...International Artistic Motion Picture Exhibition in Venice. Last week, chaperoned by the Feher family, it made its début in the U. S. in Manhattan, where it was billed with great fanfare as the "first surrealistic symphonic cinema fantasy." This turned out to be pure pressagentry, for The Rob ber Symphony lacks even the prime sur realistic quality of being unintelligible...
Ways & Means, a farce about two bankrupt professional guests who are luckily burgled, persuade the burglar to rob someone else and split the proceeds...