Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second by Brantz Mayer, a Baltimore lawyer, in 1851, and finally by Professor James A. James, of Northwestern University, in his life of George Rogers Clark. Dr. James discovered that George Rogers Clark and Captain Cresap were together on the Ohio River many miles away from the scene of the tragedy on the day it occurred...
...continent divided this scene from another, more ominous inter-union struggle. Stockton, Calif., about 150 miles from the sea but connected with San Francisco Bay by a deep water channel, cans and ships the fruits and vegetables of the fertile San Joaquin Valley. Fortnight ago the Agricultural Workers Union called a strike in four of Stockton's largest canneries, demanding better pay, shorter hours. The Agricultural Workers Union belongs to the A.F. of L. but the strike was ordered by Stockton's Central Labor Council which is controlled by the I.L.A. On the Pacific Coast, however, Joseph...
...Biggest scene in The Prince and the Pauper is naturally the Coronation, for which Warners used their big new Stage 22, too ft. longer than the lot's ordinary 40-ft. stages; a small army of extras, the St. Luke's Choir and six technical advisers. In this scene Tom Canty, already prayed over, sworn and anointed, is about to get the crown when Prince Edward comes scampering up Westminster Abbey's central aisle to present his claims. When Tom Canty corroborates them, the Archbishop of Canterbury agrees to crown Edward if he can tell the whereabouts...
...drunken speech in which Maine betrays his jealousy when his wife gets an Academy Award; his sojourn in a sanatorium to recover from the jitters; his fist fight with Niles's pressagent at Santa Anita race track, are related with superlative detachment. They lead up to the climactic scene in which sunset on the Pacific-a magnificent shot which is possibly the best individual justification of Technicolor yet seen on the screen-tempts Maine to an appropriately exhibitionistic suicide, leaving Esther to a Hollywood funeral in which an admirer steals her veil...
Public Square Trial Scene...