Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With half the nation up to its ears in politics, Franklin Roosevelt last week played his familiar double role: half chief of the Democratic Party, half Chief Executive. As a partyman he flared angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see p. 8); sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark...
...Saturday night recently in Boston, the Shubert Theatre's SRO sign was out. Inside, Leave It to Me, a musicomedy soon to open on Broadway, sailed ahead to roars of laughter. Victor Moore wowed the audience in the role of a dumbbell U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. The pretty Goodhue girls revived memories of the Florodora Sextet. The box office had counted up a huge $25,000 for the week, and the show's press-agent remarked: "I've never seen a show run so smoothly before it reached Broadway...
...leading man, does not give her the support she deserves. His portrayal of Court Fersen is un convincing; in the emotional heights of tender love scenes, he appears stiff and wooden. What the film suffers in this respect, however, is more than compensated for by Robert Morley in his role as Louis XVI. This young actor does a masterful picturization of the loyal, but pathetically simple King, who would rather fashion wooden soldiers than attend to affairs to state...
...role of Communism and Fascism in the change from a materialistic to a "transcendental" society, Professor Sorokin said, "They are the degenerate monkeys of Capitalism. Communism has all the negative characteristics of Capitalism, few of its good features...
...painful lore of the passenger pigeons deserves a poet but has attracted MacKinlay Kantor. The Noise of Their Wings, laid in Florida of 1937, revolves around the obsession of an aged millionaire, who hankers for a living pair of passenger pigeons. The main role, however, devolves on the millionaire's old friend, an ornithologist, who is Author Kantor's poetic mouthpiece. In a series of melodramatic disasters which involve half the main characters, as well as all the pigeons, the ornithologist is everywhere at once, confirming his mystical foreboding that no good can come of the millionaire...