Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier white-haired, sleepy-eyed Octavian Goga of the little National Christian Party. As a poet Octavian Goga's reputation rests largely on a series of translations of Hungarian epics. As a politician he won the awed admiration of Balkans by conducting the most slickly corrupt elections ever seen as Minister of the Interior in 1926. But Goga exactly suited King Carol because, although violently antiSemitic, he is a good friend of Jewess Lupescu; although a Fascist, a bitter enemy of Iron Guardsman Codreanu. In jig time last week he whipped a Cabinet together which contained three members...
...State Planning Commission made last April the preliminary blanket announcement in Pravda and Izvestia that the second Five-Year Plan had been "over-fulfilled in four years and three months." and public celebrations took place throughout the Soviet Union. Economists of the embassies and legations in Moscow, who had seen this happen before, sat back and waited for the detailed official statistics on the second Five-Year Plan to be issued several months later...
...proud are Netherlander that their Crown Princess is about to become a mother that thousands of loyal subjects sent each other Christmas cards on which a stork with a child is seen entering the gates of the Royal Palace...
...being abused regularly, so that every fifth production is dressed out as great and sold to the public at $2.20 a seat. But in the past, in the dim beginnings of the movie technic (this is a safer term than art), a picture did not have to be seen at enormous prices to be great. Of course, one like "The Big Parade" drew multitudes to the old Astor Theatre at a price dear even to the pocket of a retired banker. In recent years "The Informer," "All Quiet on the Western Front," and "Little Women" were three examples of films...
...keep of the dusty reels in the Modern Art Muscum's library. So well supported and enjoyed was this presentation that the Society is offering a second program, entitled "The Film in Germany and France, 1896-1927." When its second performance is given today, when "Caligari" is seen--one of the three most famous pictures, the picture that showed the untouched possibilities of the cinema, the picture acclaimed for its settings, then the audience will realize the value of such an active organization as the Harvard Film Society, which believes the movie has been, can be, and sometimes...