Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons. Heading the Australian delegation was J. V. Fairbairn, Minister of Civil Aviation, a redheaded air fighter of World War I. Chief representative for Canada is Lieut. Colonel William Avery Bishop, V. C., honorary Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Now 45, short, chubby, softspoken, he scarcely looks today like the fierce-flying Ace Bishop who shot down at least 72 German ships in 1914-18 and once took on an entire German airdrome singlehanded, strafing its squadron one by one as they tried to leave the ground...
...bounce with which Cinemactress Davis scratches, claws, snarls and romps her way through the repetitious love scenes, mopes and moons through her my-manic depressions. For all her unerring aim with a goblet, the scene in which Bette Davis smashes mirrors because they reflect her homely makeup falls far short of the similar scene in Fire Over England which Flora Robson terminates with her baffled, weary: "I will have no more mirrors in any room of mine...
...small sample of his work is convincing enough to make anyone who sees it want to see more. Humor in art presents difficulties which are not easy to surmount. A ludicrous subject, if not sufficiently restrained by means of proper emphasis upon style and technique will perhaps draw a short but hearty laugh from an onlooker. The same subject performed in a subtle fashion will cause a series of chuckles, and a mellow, not a blatant, memory of the picture. The former is a funny incident; the latter is artistic humor. Oberlaender, by not making us laugh too loudly, gives...
...Army gridiron squad arrived in Boston at 9:30 o'clock and was immediately hustled off to the Somerset Hotel. The Cadets are slated to come to the Stadium today at 2:30 o'clock for a short workout. Dick Harlow's boys will romp about in the Stadium at about 3:45 o'clock...
...elevated to its position as a far-better-than-usual second feature by the acting of Basil Rathbone; while the dresses that Sigrid Gurie wears might even bring the bald headed sugar daddies back to the front row. Gene Tunney is the star of the Information Please short...