Word: sailors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across a wrestling ring in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week two men growled and glowered at each other. Squatting in one corner, wearing a fancy ruby-colored robe with turban to match, was Arteen Ekizian, 30-year-old Turk, one time fish-peddler, U. S. sailor and Hollywood "extra." To 5,000 raucous spectators he was Ali Baba, the Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged...
Historical fabric of We Are From Kronstadt is woven from the unsuccessful opera tions of White General Yudenich around Petrograd in the embattled autumn of 1919, when the sailors from Kronstadt in time's nick reinforced workers' battalions and Red Army detachments defending the old capital. That the workers and Army men were compelled to turn around two years later and butcher the fickle and truculent Kronstadt sailors for counter revolution is obviously a sequel which this Bolshevist propaganda film chooses to leave unpictured. In We Are From Kron stadt, the sailors are determinedly glorified as immortal heroes...
...specific reasons for his never returning to the arms of his bride. The novel, on the other hand, in dealing with the voyage strives above all to pass on a consciousness of the gloom, cold, and impenetrable unfriendliness of the northern waters. And when the great, bashful sailor does not return, his widow-bride is shown to be weeping all the time, instead of somehow conveying, as she does in the book, the idea of an endless and agonized waiting. An incident of this period, perhaps the most poignant of all, in which Gaud leaps from bed in the midst...
Best shot is Fred Astaire's monkey dressed in a sailor suit presenting a bouquet of flowers to Ginger Rogers. Most incredible is that of the admiral holding up inspection to have his guests watch Fred Astaire's sailor-boy band...
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