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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Octopus, John Gielgud in The Importance of Being Earnest, Diana Wynyard in Design for Living. Christmas pantomime Producer Francis Laidler went ahead with plans for Mother Goose, The Ugly Sisters, three other ?40.000 productions in which the hoarse-voiced, hairy-legged, loosely hairpinned male comedians' parts would be taken for the first time by women, releasing the men for war action. London night life revived. The Cafe de Paris, an official public air-raid shelter for 200, packed in more than that...
Premier Molotov, whose name in Russian means Hammer (Stalin means Steel), whose pretty wife Paulina is Commissar of Fisheries and is very close to Stalin, may well have been taken by surprise. If so, his astonishment last week must have mounted hourly. No sooner had the German-Russian pact been hailed as thwarting the foul design of British Tories to direct German expansion to the East than the German Army did what (in the Russian view) Tories had failed to accomplish-i.e., directed German expansion to the East...
...Women," currently showing at both Loew's theatres. It is often said that if the movies would only paint life as it actually is and not as Hollywood script writers think it is, the attendance at the many movie palaces would be far greater. Metro must have taken this frequent criticism to heart when it produced this most realistic of realistic pictures...
...Government had clamped it down tighter than ever. News-pictures could not be sent by mail or wireless, cable transmission of wirephotos was restricted. No photographs of any kind could be imported into Britain. Most of the war pictures printed in U. S. papers were being taken by German Army cameramen, released by the Ministry for Propaganda in Berlin...
Government Bonds in recent years have taken the place of commercial loans as the bread and butter of banks. Day before Hitler jumped Poland, U. S. Treasury 4¼s (1947-52) stood at the fantastic price of 119 20/32, Treasury 2¾s (1956-59) at 106, etc. Since the premiums commanded by these bonds have to be amortized out of interest the actual yield (to maturity) of these two issues...