Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE AMERICAN SCENE- Robert Taft-Macmillan...
Time Marches backwards through the European scene of the past decade in an interesting reel which might well be called "Downing Street Blues," and which is considerably better than the racetrack melodrama "Speed to Burn," also on the current bill...
Kiss the Boys Goodbye (by Clare Boothe; produced by Brock Pemberton). The scene of a Clare Boothe play-however smart or sophisticated the sets may be-is a corpse-strewn battlefield. In The Women, warriors in Schiaparellish armor swept up & down Park Avenue, slaughtering, spreading poison gas, mowing one another down. In Kiss the Boys Goodbye, a second Civil War rages about the Connecticut countryside, and this time it is Grant who hands over his sword...
...That he conveys plenty of fear, tense readers will admit. But what will stick in most minds are the sharp descriptive passages-of a momentary lull when sea birds descend on the decks like mosquitoes, their only sound the crunching they make as they are crushed underfoot; of a scene, illuminated by lightning, when the crew looks out on a mountainside of water crawling with sharks...
Boston's Parker House was the scene of the rally and smoker for alumni of the Cayuga college. "Cornell-eeeeyell-eeeyell-eeeyell" was the cheer that came from several hundred Ithacan throats as the Red rooters heard speeches from their coach, Carl Snavely, Richard C. Floyd '11, head of the Varsity Club, and Dick Harlow...