Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...split the Democratic Party with the bitterest political fight of the century. That the fight was a blunder became apparent last summer when the President lost it. That it was also totally unnecessary became apparent last week when Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland called reporters into his office to show them a letter he had just sent the President. The letter: ". . . Being eligible for retirement under the Sumners Act ... I hereby retire from regular active service on the bench, this retirement to be effective . . . the 18th day of January...
Meantime, at the French border village of Bourg-Madame, Mr. Sikorski was putting on a good show...
Wells Fargo (Paramount), like The Covered Wagon, The Iron Horse, The Forty-Niners, but refreshed by a newer technique, attempts to show the winning of the West, with pioneering Expressmen Henrv Wells and William Fargo...
...Whitney Museum, a memorial show of the water colors of Charles Demuth surrounded a festive holiday crowd with the soft, rich colors and animated line of a master whom most critics rate second only to John Marin in his medium. Demuth died in October 1935, aged 52, after 20 years of quiet painting in the old Demuth home in Lancaster, Pa. The Demuth tobacco business in Lancaster, founded by a German forebear in 1770. is still carried on there by the family. Artist Demuth studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and for several years in Paris...
...strength of "Love and Hisses," lies in its humor, which ranges from the involved practical jokes of the city slicker, as played by Mr. Winchel and Mr. Bernie, to the magnificent clowning of Bert Lahr and Joan Davis, who make a good bid to steal the show. In between these extremes, however, is the simpler and far more appealing humor of the naive mind, childishly coping with the wicked world. At this sort of thing, strangely enough, Mile Simon is very good indeed...