Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Able, globe-trotting Radio Newscommentator Kaltenborn, once editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, has made ten successful broadcasts from the scene of the Spanish Revolution...
Stage Struck (Warner) depends for its punches on the kind of scene that makes critics unhappy and audiences hysterical. Such a scene is the one in which Dance Director George Randall (Dick Powell), hiding under the bed of Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell) when her onetime lover appears, has his protruding legs nipped by a Great Dane until he and the dog crawl out of the room. Less carefully tested but just as broad is the Yacht Club Boys' parody of a vaudeville tumbling act and their agreeable ditty, The Income Tax. There is some sketchy hoofing, a Harburg...
Peter Harvard is in our midst, quietly surveying the scene that has made his family name famous. Although a guest of the University, Peter has been dodging publicity during his brief stay in Cambridge, and has doggedly refused to appear publicly at any of the funrtions...
...plans instead to abscond with it. A Shanghai barfly sniffs out the plan, demands a cut. O'Hara, escaping from the general's junk, arrives in time to cut short these negotiations, but before he can find the money General Yang and his soldiers are on the scene. The elaborate pattern of violence which follows gives the girl a chance to redeem her original betrayal while Yang justifies the picture's title...
...afternoon last week in the swank offices of Attorneys Pritzker & Pritzker, on the 22nd floor of Chicago's Metropolitan Building, a happy scene took place. Four very stylishly dressed little men beamed and pumped the hands of newshawks, eagerly posed this way and that way for photographers, put their arms around the shoulders of friends, rubbed their palms with satisfaction. A chance observer might have mistaken them for a team of tumblers jumping about in jubilation at having signed a contract to appear in the floor show of the Edgewater Beach Hotel. But their destination was not the Lake...