Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Revolving Stage. Quite as far removed from strictly union business as a third-term boom was the main drama of high labor politics in which John L. Lewis was engaged. It was a drama played on a revolving stage in which the scene shifted back & forth in the twinkling of an eye between the old Rialto Theatre in Washington and the Hotel Everglades in Miami. For simultaneously with the Mine Workers' Convention in Washington, William Green was holding the quarterly meeting of the A. F. of L. Executive Council in Florida...
...mathematical equations, blueprints and brains of aeronautical scientists. From the eggs of experiment, theory and calculation, the optimists hope, will hatch like shimmering larvae the bigger, safer, faster airplanes of tomorrow. According to pessimists, there is not likely to be much future if the dark blots on the present scene are not removed. Both dark blots and bright prospects were discussed in Manhattan last week when the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences met at Columbia University...
...Wife of General Ling (Gaumont British), as a timely reminder that the sun never sets on the British accent, lay, its scene in British Crown Colony Hon -Kong. There it huffs & puffs until it blows down the house of double-dealing Genera1 Ling. Most imperial gesture: Actor Alan Napier, as the film's aptly named Governor Buckram, stepping out unarmed before a nasty-looking horde of Chinese bandits, demanding and getting their supine surrender...
...underworld; returned soldiers, as embittered as they are eloquent; three suicides, a rape, a robbery and a final thundering climax in which a crazy policeman attired in priestly garments shoots at a thief, hits a can of nitroglycerin and makes the devastation complete. There are a number of death scenes in which characters in their final agony rise as sturdily as opera singers to express their wrath, their views of the world and their lost hopes in prose poetry that owes a good deal to Thomas Wolfe and James Joyce. There is even a scene showing Calvin Coolidge telling homespun...
...With the scene tried at 18 all going its the fourth of five rounds, the match was to the locals an brilliant American compositions coupled themselves aid a sudden British collapse...