Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playwright and hero) is a stock company entrepreneur and leading man who, broke, is persuaded by a smalltown boss in Missouri to run as dummy candidate for Mayor. So potent has been his appeal over the footlights that he gets all the women's vote, is elected. Backstage scenes of the type resorted to here are no longer convulsive for their own sake. Nor does pleasant hokum like the sale of candy with a souvenir in each & every box, redeem the longer intervals of sluggish comedy. Henry Hull makes the actor-mayor only a conventional juvenile. The Passion Play...
...Other cartoonists have drawn Pope Pius XI in a Fascist black shirt and Mussolini with the Papal Tiara perched on his rather bald head. The caricatured insinuation is always that His Holiness and His Excellency are reprehensibly in cahoots. Last week in the Vatican Gardens occurred a scene which made the scurrilous inkmen rub their stained hands with glee. Some 150 prominent Fascists, members of the Royal Automobile Club, had mo tored down from Milan to assist at the presentation to Pope Pius of a second new and sumptuous limousine (TIME, May 6). Senator Silvio Crespi, as President...
...committee of businessmen and incredulous newsgatherers rushed to Maracay. The businessmen begged the Dictator-President to reconsider. The newsmen waited confidently for the grand scene of "reluctant" acquiescence. But at the end of an hour-long conference, out dashed the newsmen to the Maracay telegraph office. The quickest one cabled...
...films are only one molecule thick, all molecules arranged in one direction, with "their heads up and their tails down," as it were, showing that the molecules have different properties on different sides. What was more, a talking movie was exhibited showing some of his experiments. In the opening scene a toy boat sped across a pan of water propelled by a piece of camphor in its stern which gave off a thin film of camphor on the water. Periodically Dr. Langmuir appeared in the screen and said, "Now, if you will kindly look over my shoulder. . . ." Then followed...
...last week, as it stood on display in Christie's London auction rooms, many a Britisher went for a last look. Everyone supposed, of course, that "some rich American" would carry off the treasure. Even Edward of Wales strolled in, peered at the exquisite white and blue glass scene of the marriage of King Peleus and Thetis, Queen of the Nereids. It was made known that he agreed with connoisseurs and critics that $500,000 would by no means be an unfair price. The auction took 35 seconds. Starting at $50,000, the bid rose in $5,000 leaps...