Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot quite bear to watch Wild Bill roasted on a spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail taken by Cody's detail causes Cody fall into an Indian ambush, Wild Bill to renounce his love Preview audiences wrote the studio protesting as unlikely the scene in which Cody and a handful of soldiers broke by volley firing the charge of a far superior force ot mounted Indians. Studio defense 48 troopers saved themselves from 800 Cheyennes by this means at Beecher's Island Colo., on Sept...
Skillful casting and makeup has wrought a group of bit players in the opening scene into a realistic facsimile of Lincoln's Cabinet. Cinemagoers with good memory of their history books may recognize Secretary of State Seward, Secretary ot War Stanton, Attorney General Speed Postmaster General William Dennison...
...brink of a new wedding with a river gal (Katherine DeMille) when Newt nailed Pearl and Ernie in the barge-boat cabin. At last he found reason to strike up St. Louis Blues. Best tunes: With a Banjo On My Knee, There's Something in the Air. Best scene: Miss Stanwyck and the crooner sitting side by side, delivering monologs on their respective troubles, neither listening to the other. Best role: Buddy Ebsen as a river simpleton...
Second in pretentiousness only to its wholesale production of It Can't Happen Here (TIME, Nov. 9) was a 27-scene musical show which the Federal Theatre Project presented in Chicago last week. Titled 0 Say Can You Sing?, FTP's "musical comedy revue" had been more than four months in the making. To stage, costume, write, score, act and direct it, the Government had hired at $23.50 per person per week some 250 untried, unemployed or unfit stage folk from the Chicago area. Result was a three-hour performance which did not differ in quality from most...
...crying accompanied their gnawing and splashing, until the imperturbable red man was almost a nervous wreck. Once he even pulled Rawhide roughly by the tail, but he was shamed immediately after when one of the kittens rushed to Rawhide, uttering whimpering sounds, clutched him tightly and "made a little scene about...