Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journalistic hands in Rome can always tell the difference between a genuine Italian demonstration and one of organized "spontaneity." In the latter case each demonstrator has to bring to the scene a card which he received by mail, must give this to a Fascist Party official Censorship kills dispatches saying cards have been stamped, but last week Italian censors were delighted to pass cables in which correspondents vouched for the real enthusiasm of a huge Rome crowd screaming "CIANO! CIANO! CIANO...
...efforts soon began to think that Balanchine was not much better. Although he staged successful ballets in many a Broadway show (On Your Toes, Babes in Arms), Choreographer Balanchine never quite got the spirit of upholstered elegance appropriate to Aïda, or the abandon appropriate to the Bacchanale scene in Tannhäuser. And as pirouetting Bacchanalians, the youthful American Ballet was discouragingly apt to resemble a flock of plucked sparrows. Kindest commentators agreed it was nice, but not quite right...
...along the Grand Canal sector north of Suchow, furiously-battling Chinese surged forward in frontal attacks. At Taierhchwang, scene of back-&-forth fighting for a fortnight, the Chinese hurled new Soviet tanks, fresh German-trained troops into the line, recaptured the city. At last reports the Japanese had dug in at Yihsien, 20 miles to the rear, where they were attempting to consolidate their forces in the area. Chinese armies hammered against the town in an effort to drive the Japanese farther back...
...Thin Man (TIME, July 9, 1934), There's Always a Woman puts on a cheerful but exciting air of informality by making crime detection safe for the younger married set, plays prankish variations on the traditional theme that the police (Scotland Yard excepted) are always baffled. Best scene: Detective Blondell undergoing a third degree at the hands of her worsted cop competitors, ending up a fresh & dewy pink in a roomful of wilted bluecoats...
TIMES change. Before the war, what was missing from the American scene was "a good five-cent cigar." One of the Gods of the present generation is Science, and the efforts of Wells, Durant Eddington, Jeans, and others to explain what the new theoretical science means left unsatisfied the persistent statement that "what this country needs is a good two-dollar explanation of Relativity...