Word: statics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Santa Fe Trail (Paramount). This is another western, beautifully photographed, nicely acted, but static and thoroughly dull as entertainment. Taken from Hal G. Evart's Saturday Evening Post serial, Spanish Acres, it is in effect a long argument as to whether some sheep owned by a U. S. boy are to be grazed on land owned by a gullible Spanish rancher. Richard Arlen is the hero, Rosita Moreno is the rancher's daughter. One element of comic relief is the occasional intrusion of a young boy and girl who have the fearful coyness inevitable in camera-trained children...
...Farewell to Arms. Laurence Stallings was a co-author of What Price Glory and of Rainbow. Best that can be said of his adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's bit ter, static War novel is that Mr. Stallings has attempted to interpolate little of his own material. Worst that can be said is that his editing of Hemingway's material is questionable. None of the close-knit Hemingway scenes were without importance: they were all inseparable and significant. By eliminating such memorable sequences as Lieut. Henry's wounding, his escape into Switzerland with Nurse Catherine Barkley (which would...
Travel magazines have usually followed a rich but static pattern of photographs and articles designed to lure the reader to places far away. Into the field last week came the first monthly issue of Holiday, bringing a refreshing atmosphere of play to the subject of travel...
Aware of his probable selection on the morrow, Dean Cross went peacefully to bed after serving notice on party leaders that he would not accept their nomination unless he were given a free hand to reorganize the static Democratic State Committee by turning out its chairman James...
...casket business is no static affair. A flux of styles from decade to decade keeps things moving. The height of current fashion is National's Cast Bronze Sarcophagus, a 1,400-lb., $16,000, silk-lined affair. From 1910 to 1920 the leader was a fancy mahogany casket selling at around $3,500. A trend toward colors is likewise setting in. Cream, champagne, grey, pink, green, and rainbow-tinted caskets are popular now. Recently an actress was buried in a bright orchid colored casket lined in satin ruffles; officials of a smaller western company still talk...