Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney General Cummings aggressively repeated this keynote, the theme of the convention. "It is not intended that this conference shall meet, discuss, adjourn and be forgotten," said...
...customary prelude of turkey and its companion delicacies the assembled company of Dunster bucks and their eminently presentable companions of the gentler sex settled back to enjoy the antics of Gale Noyes and his operatic troupe. The curtain raiser was a modern opera concerned entirely with the touching theme of a house on fire: Walter Birge '35 intoned magnificently as the diva reaching new highs of operatic tonsil abuse. Donald Gleason '35 joined in most capably as Miss Birge's singing spouse and Larry Nichols '35 cut an imposing figure as the rescuing fireman. The main aria "I Smell Smoke...
Equipped with a commentary written by War Correspondent Burnet Hershey with the editorial advice of Columbia University's Walter B. Pitkin, Dealers in Death illustrates its theme with shots of European munitions factories, portraits of the de Wendels, Zaharoff, Eugene Schneider, the Krupps, together with maps, graphs, battle & atrocity shots. Since it is intended as entertainment, Dealers in Death lacks sincerity as propaganda. Since it contains large quantities of propaganda, it is weak in entertainment. Nonetheless, not even the hackneyed sensationalism of its method can completely conceal the grim power of the picture's meaning...
...pleasure in "Une Etoile Disparait," presented by The French Talking Films Committee, Thursday and Friday at the Institute of Geographical Exploration. The story, written by Marcel Achard, is concerned with murder in a film studio. The victim is the jeune premiere, Liane, poisoned in a hasty drink before her theme song shot. Suspicion moves around the very mixed company, centering upon different members; there are false clues and bogus confessions in the best manner; and the murderer is finally revealed when the death film is reproduced...
...witticisms by Lady Wyngate, one is left expectantly awaiting a light comedy. The second act, (in which the characters discuss socialism, Hitlerism, race prejudice, values in life,) gets further away from comedy and closes with a climax that is exceedingly melodramatic. The third act carries on the same theme, but the ending is disappointing and leaves one with a feeling that all the talk that has gone before has been futile and unnecessary...