Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Live Tonight," with Tullio Carminati and Lilian Harvey, is one of those cinemas which strive to be charming. Diffused lighting, yachts, Monte Carlo, the Riviera in the moonlight, and a champagne supper for two--all these ingredients achieve a sort of Midsummer Nights Dream atmosphere. Carminati, rich and cynical, complains that love is an ephemeral flower, but that, of course, is before he meets Miss Harvey. Also on the program is a very interesting installment of the "March of Time," including a Russian chapter of unusual brilliance...
...down with high meat prices!" invaded the distributing plants of Wilson & Co. and United Dressed Beef Co. In The Bronx 2,000 women volunteering as pickets succeeded in closing down more than 1,000 meat shops. In Brooklyn a poultry dealer named William Sheeger carried a chicken home for supper. Pickets, mistaking him for a customer who would not join the boycott, hurled a rock through his window, pummeled him. Confined at first to kosher shops, the strike spread to some nonkosher operators. Strike leaders claimed that more than 4,000 shops had been closed. Meatmen put the figure...
...Last Supper...
...unveiling Baron Gabor de Bessenyey, scholar, raconteur, friend of the artist, orated, comico-seriously: "This is the 20th-century Last Supper. As in another picture of the same subject a banquet scene of the cinquecento was portrayed, here we have a typical genre picture of the 20th Century. In the original it was the last supper for One Man: in this, alas, it is often the last supper of many...
...Education by Radio met in joint convention to wring their hands over the bloody adventures of Dick Tracy, the struggles of Little Orphan Annie, the blood-curdling mysteries of Chandn the Magician. Burden of the complaint was that Junior loses his play hours hanging over the radio, bolts his supper, gets so excited he cannot sleep...