Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Zarya Vostoka, the largest building at Sukhum on the Black Sea, the State Theatre, is now the scene of a propa ganda trial of 47 accused which is filling columns in all Caucasian newsorgans. According to the State prosecutor, President Nestor Lakoba of the Abkhaz Soviet Republic originated the conspiracy to assassinate Joseph Stalin in 1933 and the would-be assassins were disgruntled agents of the Dictator's own dread secret police, the Gay-pay-oo. They opened fire too soon on a launch carrying Stalin across Pitsunda Bay and it was able to veer away from...
When in the first scene 59-year-old George M. Cohan, answering to the name of President Roosevelt in top hat, cutaway and pince-nez, summoned his Cabinet to a meeting in Manhattan's Central Park, playgoers settled down to a show they expected to surpass Of Thee I Sing. But they soon found it was not as good as all that...
Amiably following the established for mula for stories about crazy families, Danger - Love at Work is unpretentious, well-paced and often very funny. Typical scene: Papa Pemberton trying to pick out the proper type of shotgun for use at a fashionable wedding...
...scrawny, 17-year-old boy with a strong British accent got his first job as floor sweeper and general retoucher in the Chicago lithographic firm of Shober & Carqueville. A year later he was a scene painter for the Chicago Opera, priming the enormous backdrops with a large brush dipped in glue. This job he attacked so earnestly that at the end of his first day's work he fell in a dead faint on the floor. His name was Albert Sterner, born a U. S. citizen, in England, of naturalized parents...
...films reproduce the colors of the decorations and academic gowns so brightly that the scene appears to be bathed in brilliant sunlight. There is no impression of rain, except for the numerous umbrellas and raincoats, which look strangely out of place...