Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fine Arts is still showing "The Moonlight Sonata," an ocacsional en- picture built about the magnificent playing of Paderwski. That this is more of a recital than a movie is a point in its favor...
Loew's State and Orpeheum is still showing "Toy Wife," with Louise Rainer, Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young. Essentially modern actors, they have difficulty in this revival of the Victorian Frou Frou," and the result is not happy...
...last week, though the tide was still indicated as ebbing (i.e., primary movement tending downward), a 7-point rise in the industrial average since May 31 encouraged a bullish hope that ripples might top previous crests of 121 for the industrials, 23.5 for the rails, thus show the current wave to be coming in. This week's Rhea letter said that every upward zig-zag step, if confirmed by both averages, would be bullish, but a downward zigzag prior to penetration of 121 and 23.5 would mean danger...
Last week Wall Street was still chuckling over an incident which somewhat supports criticism of the setup: Fitch's rated the recent $100,000,000 issue of U. S. Steel debentures as AAA (highest), Standard as A1 (second rank), Poor's and Moody's as A (third rank). Last week, too, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau revealed that the group which has been devising a uniform bank examination was also brewing substantial modifications of bond ratings and eligibility...
...unadulterated Mainiac bragging, Trending Into Maine aims belligerently at these main points: 1) that "there are no better people anywhere in the world" than State-of-Mainers, 2) that writers who call Maine natives "dour, sour, cautious, calculating yokels," are dirty liars, and 3) that Maine voters are still the true defenders of liberty, and to hell with Roosevelt...