Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will Rogers, appearing as a tramp in the other feature, succeeds again in doing what only he can do: making a soppingly sentimental plot not only bearable, but enjoyable. This story, taken from Ben Ames Williams' "Jubilo," gives him a chance to display all his talents. There's pathos and...
Ten years ago a George White show was a symbol; a hectic pageant of skits, sheiks, jugglers, tap dancers, Mormons, Turks, Doukhoubars, Greek gods, and Canadian Mounted Police. Sixty scenes and as many chorus girls were only attributes of a production that could be accurately described as "mammoth." But that...
Not until the farm lobbies in Washington put their husky shoulders to the issue did Philippine independence make more than sentimental progress. Cane raisers in Louisiana, beet growers in Utah, were told that duty-free sugar from the Philippines was ruining their business. Philippine cocoanut oil was competing with domestic...
The Herr Professor who wrote the music for last week's operetta and stood in the pit to conduct it was just as familiar to the Viennese audience as the romantic Viennese story. He was Violinist Fritz Kreisler, born and brought up in Vienna, son of a Viennese doctor...
Big stockholders in John R, Thompson Co. (restaurants and cafeterias in 36 cities) are John Daniel Hertz and Charles Alexander McCulloch who were good friends of the founder until he died in 1927. Last March President John R. Thompson Jr., 37, tried to get proxies sufficient to regain voting control...