Word: rome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...submission. "Instead he reared up like a thorough bred horse and sent his soldiers into Africa. Viva Il Duce!" Next morning Achille Starace's men captured Gondar, and within three days the first Italian troops reached the shores of Lake Tana. In Rome the Rearing Horse was tractable enough to fill the Fas cist Press with soothing statements that Italy had had every intention of maintaining Britain's rights to the waters of the lake. "After all," announced a Foreign Office attache, "Britain's interests in Ethiopia are hydraulic, ours are territorial!" Marshal Badoglio, smiling over...
...dignified quiet and semi-obscurity in which it has been thriving, the Classical Club stalks majestically to the center of the stage with mask in place and haughty eye fixed on a spell bound audience. In these happy days of celebration the voice that was the voice of Rome sounds a proper and pleasing note, and in presenting Mostellaria sincerely and accurately the present pays fitting tribute to the past which has given it so much...
...perfected a basic story which serves as the standard framework of his profitable product. In a Sherwood play, the boy practically never gets the girl for keeps. But the lovers generally have a few final poignant moments together. Before Hannibal went back to Carthage in The Road to Rome (1927), he spent one night with Amytis. Before Archduke Rudolf Maximilian von Habsburg was rushed out of Austria in Reunion in Vienna (1931), he was vouchsafed an evening with his old girl, Elena. In The Petrified Forest (1935), Public Enemy Duke Mantee killed Alan Squier before he had done much more...
...Lampoon with such success that Vanity Fair hired him as co-editor with Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. Hopeful contributors to Life recall the macabre, unsmiling laugh, the generous good nature with which from 1920 to 1928 Editor Sherwood personally received their effusions. When he wrote The Road to Rome, Sherwood quit journalism for good. He published in Variety last week a notice that Harry Van was back in town under the management of "Al" Lunt...
...then seats himself behind its desk and says: "I am Mr. Korda." That, at 42, Kingpin Korda looks and acts like anything but a Hollywood cinemagnate is no accident. A bright young Budapest journalist who got interested in the cinema in 1916, he reached Hollywood by way of Vienna, Rome and Berlin in 1925. His Private Life of Helen of Troy was one of the best silent pictures of its era. When Director Korda left Hollywood in 1928, however, he had had enough of its methods to last him a lifetime. The Private Life of Henry VIII, which he produced...