Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared to Of Thee I Sing, with which Author Kaufman, in company then with Morrie Ryskind and the Gershwins. won the Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged...
...documentary film, The River, at the little Strand Theatre in New Orleans last week, was marked by plain clothes and sincere praise. What the audience of educators, legislators, literati and plain people saw was a motion picture of startling photographic beauty, sweeping scope and social importance. A swift cinematic history of the vast Mississippi system from pre-Columbian times to yesterday afternoon, an inventory of its bounty and its toll, a report of Government reclamation activity, The River was in the same small class with Robert Flaherty's Mo'ana, John Grierson's Drifters, Joris Ivens...
...partly to the stubborn stodginess of the Boers themselves, even more to their galumphing dialect, a certain drabness of atmosphere has beclouded every novel of the Cape Colony, from Olive Schreiner's Story Of An African Farm on down. Swift, even melodramatic though The Turning Wheels is, many a reader will come an early cropper over words like baas, kopje, kloof, veldt, mevrou, spruit* with which its text is besprinkled, over the de Jongs, Zwart Pietes, van der Bergs, van Reenens who make up its confusing cast of characters. But once these obstacles are hurdled, the surviving reader...
Hopping mad when their request was ignored, Trenton's township council last week passed two ordinances that produced a swift reply from the railroad: 1) Trains passing through the mile of township were restricted to five miles per hour. 2) Blowing of whistles in the township was prohibited. Twenty-four hours later the Southern agreed that if the township would rescind its ordinance, the railroad would stop its trains on request...
...tempo of this picture is fast and varied, and there are very few dull moments. What it lacks in smoothness of finish is made up for in its variety of action and swift comedy...