Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victor of the 1935 election was Canada's present Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King who has beat about a good many New Deal bushes, doing little and talking loudly about what he will do for the splendid people of the Dominion of Canada. According to himself, Prime Minister King has been willing to do every good thing the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should decide was "constitutional" under the British North America Act, which is the Constitution of the Dominion. Last week it did not break his heart that in London nearly the whole New Deal...
...start in the cinema industry. The Zukor Silver Jubilee, which began Jan. 7 and will last, according to Paramount publicity, for 17 weeks, reached its peak two weeks before the Champagne Waltz premiere. At a Hollywood super-dinner to Producer Zukor, Cinema Tsar Will Hays called Producer Zukor "a splendid American', a great leader," Leopold Stokowski conducted a 150-piece orchestra, Paramount's contract players joined in a floor show which, on a basis of combined salaries involved, was doubtless the most expensive ever staged...
Actress Lillie's cool impersonations of women in various outrageous situations are probably employed to greater effect in this show than in any other in her long and hilarious professional lifetime. Any Lillie fan who misses her splendid pre-War number. "Buy Yourself A Balloon," sung while uncomfortably suspended over the audience in an electrically lighted quarter-moon, will be missing the high point of this comedienne's career. She is also pretty funny as a noisy first nighter, a haughty Theatre Guild box-office clerk, a strip tease artist. Best tunes: Now (Vernon Duke & Ted Fetter), Little...
...Wedding March in swingtime. A chorus from New York's schools thundered the Soldiers' Chorus from Faust, climaxing it with a lunge towards the footlights and an unintentional Communist salute. Enthralled by Lucrezia Bori's excerpts from La Boheme and Baritone Tibbett's splendid singing, the huge party released itself in a loud Star-Spangled Banner, pressed backstage to admire a new $5,000 cyclorama...
Sirs: TIME being a progressive mag, you'll be interested in this splendid shot for publicity. You report under "People" in your last issue that a Delta Kappa Epsilon neophyte secured Governor Davey's sig on his own shorts. How so? Delta Kappa Epsilon has no Ohio State chapter...