Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Community of True Inspiration had seen enough of the outside world, by way of mail order catalogs and passing motorists, to want a change. The 1,400 colonists did not, however, split up their $2,060,000 common property. They formed a corporation under the laws of Delaware, issued one share of common (voting) stock to every adult, issued preferred stock in proportion to years of service. They now work for wages. Nevertheless, Amana Society still provides free medical care and burial, gives its members a 10% discount at general stores, a 665% discount at drug stores. Chief Amana products...
Below in the two launches, cameras clicked. For seconds all was well. Then the people in the launches gasped as the plummeting body, having touched fingers and toes in a back jackknife, was seen to straighten and then veer, swing crazily in the air-pressure and smash, spread-legged, into the water on shoulders and back. "He's dead!" someone shrieked...
...King and the Chorus Girl (Warner Brothers) starts with a sequence in which a Paris doctor diagnoses the alarming coma of young ex-King Alfred (Fernand Gravet). "Never in my entire life," he tells the ex-King's ex-Chancellor (Edward Everett Horton), "have I ever seen anyone so completely drunk." Between this sequence and the picture's last, exhibiting an ocean liner at Niagara Falls, The King and the Chorus Girl whirls through a series of urbanely insane and expertly executed narrative gyrations which make it probably the most unique and certainly the most enjoyable light comedy...
Producer Le Roy, who had seen him in French pictures and on the stage of the little theatre which Actor Gravet and his wife run in Paris, persuaded him to sign a contract for three pictures by promising to select and direct them all. Having completed the first, afraid of losing his appeal for U. S. audiences by becoming too thoroughly Americanized, Actor Gravet recently returned to Paris, where he maintains an army of 30,000 toy soldiers of which a few members always travel with their owner...
...Earhart crashed (TIME. March 29), Capt. Musick again soared into the sky. this time turned southwest and faced the world's most ticklish navigation problem- that of finding a speck of land 120 ft. long, 90 ft. wide, and only three feet high, which no plane had ever seen. This tiny spot is Kingman Reef, discovered some 80 years ago by Captain John Kingman of the U. S. schooner Shooting Star. Other ships occasionally spotted it afar, but not until 1921 was it officially recorded by the U. S. S. Eagle...