Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outside of Tuskegee Mr. Roosevelt changed from train to automobile, thereafter interspersed his jaunt with talks on a favorite theme: let the South make itself self-sufficient. At Auburn, he recalled how when he first lived in Warm Springs, he found that all the milk, apples, meat, shoes for sale there came from the North. To make the South selfsupporting, he said, "means a lot of work. It means, incidentally, getting the South out of hock to the North. I don't believe that the South is so broke that it cannot put its own capital into the establishment...
...flair for publicity. But last year he struck a workable vein of publicity when he agitated for a special Senate committee to investigate injustices in Civil Service promotions. He got his committee and $2,500 to finance it. Last week his hearings made headlines in capital dailies. His theme: Why pretty girls get ahead of homely ones as Government workers, with examples in the flesh...
Rock-A-Bye Basie (Count Basie; Vocalion). New theme song of the No. 1 colored hot band...
...shows his handling of mature, accomplished characters, his mastery of suspense, his trick of giving his characters homely, human reflections at exalted moments in their lives. Unique among French novels, The Thibaults tells a frank, sometimes scandalous story with deceptive innocence, makes the most hackneyed theme of modern fiction-the breakup of a family-fresh, unexpected, unusual...
Prison Without Bars (United Artists-Alexander Korda). For reasons which are growing increasingly mysterious, French cinema producers seem to have become obsessed with the problem of female institutions. Model for all such pictures was, of course, the German Maedchen in Uniform, but in this the theme, more or less intrinsic to the background, was Lesbianism. French producers have not been obliged to resort to any such spectacular embellishments. Pictures like Club de Femmes, La Maternelle, Forty Little Mothers, Ballerina, make it apparent that French producers are interested in seminaries, kindergartens and sewing circles solely on their own merits, that they...