Word: scale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vampire who feeds on power and lust. She destroys three men in the first two acts. At the end when she is murdered and horribly mutilated, the orchestra emits one terrifying shriek. Then only did Bostonians sit up in their seats. For although Berg again "uses the twelve-tone scale, he weaves it into a crafty harmonic design, subjects it to his moods which are for the most part restrained...
Under the 1932 laws, the game's maximum penalty-for 13 down, vulnerable and redoubled-was 20,800 points. Under the new code the penalty in the same situation is 7,600 points. On the vulnerable side the reduction in penalties from the 1932 sliding scale (100 for the first undoubled undertrick, 150 for the second, etc. etc.), will doubtless cause lusty overbidding to save rubber...
...theatrical entrepreneurs (Adolphe Menjou and Joe Cawthorn) engaged in fleecing a stingy dowager (Alice Brady) who hires them to produce a charity show on a shoestring. Dick Powell, Glenda Farrell, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert and Dorothy Dare appear in their usual capacities, help put the production on a grander scale than anything ever seen outside a Warner sound stage. Trick shot: an unidentified tap dancer's feet photographed from below, through a glass floor...
...withdraw all worth from our review of "The Little Friend" now at the Fine Arts, nevertheless we intend to adopt an attitude of complete admiration. In all the welter of gigantic, colossal, insignificant movies, it is a real pleasure to praise one that is not planned on a grand scale, makes no pretensions to greatness, yet in yet very sincerity, in the dramatic power of a graceful little girl, reaches the heights...
...words that if France were attacked, and Belgian neutrality violated, England would join forces against the aggressor. Today, if the Russians are right, an identical situation has arisen, and again Britain holds the key to European peace. A positive statement of her policy would almost surely postpone another large-scale War until a new system of alliances has formed. There will be strife in the near future only if France persuades her allies to cooperate in a preventive war, in the hope of sparing Europe certain disaster in the distant future...