Word: smash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beauty contest, Lucille went West. In 1925 Douglas Fairbanks chose her for leading lady in Don Q. Thereafter, as Mary Astor, she enjoyed a profitable, if not sensational, cinema career. In 1930 Miss Astor's first husband, Director Kenneth Hawks, was killed in a plane smash. Recovering from this shock, Miss Astor was attended by Dr. Thorpe, a dressy Hollywood gynecologist, whom she married within a year. In 1934 Miss Astor's parents, who evidently regarded their daughter as a speculative investment, complained in court that she had failed to keep them in luxury (TIME, April...
...Olive Field lies less in the political insight it provides than in a number of brilliant scenes scattered throughout the book, giving eloquent testimony of Author Bates's graphic powers. One of these is a description of a Holy Week procession that is broken up by atheists who smash the images, burn the figures of Christ. "In the middle of the road, Mudarra, his pale face burning with intense purpose, was swinging a bar of iron at the feet of Judas Iscariot. ... In the Square of Our Lady of Carmen the fire smouldered, a wooden head, charred beyond recognition...
...said it would take three years and 300,000 men to put down the rebellion. But Washington socialites thought otherwise. On the morning of July 21, 1861 they climbed in their carriages, rolled 30 miles south to a hilltop above Manassas, Va. to watch the Union troops under McDowell smash through the Confederate lines in the War's first major engagement, march on to Richmond and a swift end of Secession...
...combination of circumstances almost as complex as that which befalls its heroine accounts for the nature of Suzy. Because Mutiny on the Bounty, an enormously long and expensive picture, was the No. 1 smash hit of last season, producers this season think that all long and expensive pictures will be hits. Length has another advantage in that it helps combat what producers call the "double bill evil." An additional reason for Suzy's length is that the Legion of Decency would not have permitted a straightforward adaptation of Herbert Gorman's mildly lubricious novel. Consequently the full quota...
...Against the World (Warner). This appraisal of the brevity of the public's memory may be correct, but it is also unflattering to Warner Brothers' own product. Two Against the World-a re-make of the Warner smash Five Star Final (1931)-does not offer its famed prototype the courtesy of alteration, but simply stuffs it into a radio-station and mans it with stock company people. Sherry Scott (Humphrey Bogartj is the manager of a radio-chain who, in obedience to his hypocritical boss, rakes up a 20-year-old murder story as material for a serial...