Word: succession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philosophy: Tall, gangling, sandy-haired Philosopher Smith accepts his success in politics as natural enough. He attributes it to: 1) his homespun personality (he is "Tom" and not T. V. or Professor Smith on the radio); 2) his thin but intimate radio voice, which listeners so persistently confused with Alexander Woollcott's, that in desperation he invited Woollcott to talk on one of his programs; and 3) his political philosophy. His philosophy: that politicians are not supposed to evolve their own ideas but to evolve compromise programs. He thinks legislation should be written by experts, steered by politicians...
...Chamberlain's long exposition that to fight for Czechoslovakia would not save her but only result in twofold catastrophe. First, said Mr. Chamberlain, the Czech Army would massacre the Sudetens as traitors who would be caught between them and the German Army. Second, the Germans would have enough success in the first few days or weeks of war to overrun much Czech territory where, enraged by the massacre of Sudetens, the Germans would massacre many more Czechs. Meanwhile, the German "Siegfried Line," on the French border, although ultimately it might be broken, would have held, while numberless great cities...
Their services to musicomedy can be exaggerated, but hardly their success. That success rests on a commercial instinct that most of their rivals have apparently ignored. As Rodgers & Hart see it, what was killing musicomedy was its sameness, its tameness, its eternal rhyming of June with moon. They decided it was not enough just to be good at the job; they had to be constantly different also. The one possible formula was: Don't have a formula; the one rule for success: Don't follow it up. Their last five shows explain what they mean. Jumbo was circus...
...German prison camp. The prisoners-principally an austere patrician, Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay), his mechanic, Marechal (Jean Gabin), and a generous fellow, Rosenthal (Dalio), who shares the canned delicacies sent by his rich family-naturally try to escape. Director Renoir, however, builds his plot, not around the success or failure of this enterprise, but around their relations with each other, with their guards, with the gloomy German officer, von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim) in whose fortress they are finally interned...
...South American countries, Southern France, Brussels, Shanghai, Tientsin, in addition to its birthplace, Spain. First introduced to the U. S. at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, it has been tried out within the past decade at Chicago and New Orleans with no great success, has been a No. 1 tourist attraction at Miami since...