Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mile Printemps, making her first U. S. appearance since 1926 in the first English-speaking part she ever attempted, gives Mr. Coward's little tale her best. She trills four of the seven songs, trips lightly up & down the stage in flat heels and Lanvin costumes. Unlike Pierre Fresnay. who holds the record for the greatest number of performances in Musset and for speaking better English than any other French actor, Mile Printemps does not always articulate the graceful Coward lyrics sufficiently to make them intelligible. But she and M. Fresnay provide an agreeable, if not an eventful, evening...
...Miguel Mariano Gomez, walked inconspicuously down the steps of the City Hall and away as if to lunch. Quarter of an hour later police in the corridors heard cries from the Treasury vault, rushed in to open it. Out popped the City cashier and three assistants with a tall tale...
Author Aden's title is a calculated come-on. The Duchess never finishes the well-known sentence and Author Arlen's advertised salacious spread, of course, proves a Barmecide's feast. His brillian-tined tale tells of a young, beautiful, rich but extremely respectable Duchess, a widow who is a model of propriety to less proper peers and inferiors, and of the ghostly suspicion that falls on her when London becomes the scene of a series of lustful murders...
England's prolific Poet Laureate writes a rousing tale of a Latin American revolution, in which all the best parts are filled by Anglo-Saxon hearts...
...history of the Far East during the past two decades has been a repeated tale of Japanese aggression and attempts to gain complete hogemony in the Eastern Asian and western Pacific areas. While China was rent with civil dissension and the world was engaged in the fatal European struggle, Japan attempted to force upon the Chinese a treaty which would have impaired their territorial and political integrity. only American threats of armed hostility thwarted Nipponese ambition. Her Siberian expedition, her reluctance to agree to the Washington treaty, her refusal to cooperate in Pacific financial and teriff policies, all give evidence...