Word: tone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dancing Lady (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A burlesque dancer named Janie Barlow (Joan Crawford) meets a jaunty young socialite named Tod Newton (Franchot Tone). He sees to it that she gets a front line position in the chorus of a deluxe revue. The revue's dance director (Clark Gable) observes that she has talent and enthusiasm, makes her the star...
...same plot and the same characters, it is not a carbon copy. It is Forty-Second Street in sables. All dance directors in the cinema are serious and frenetic artists but Clark Gable is more morbidly devoted to his routines than Warner Baxter in Warner Brothers musicals. Franchot Tone takes his burlesque girl to his country home with more snobbish head-wagglings than those used for similar purposes by Buddy Rogers in Take a Chance. In her serious characterization of Janie Barlow as an inspired, warm-hearted runaway angel, Joan Crawford makes thoroughly apparent the fact that...
...island which has become a Utopia for jaded Occidentals, was one of the last ports of call for Composer Henry Eichheim, a great traveler since he stopped playing the violin in the Boston Symphony. Composer Eichheim was mightily impressed with the subtle variations the Balinese weave around their five-tone scale. His own Bali, a recording of these impressions, was played in Philadelphia by Leopold Stokowski to whom it was dedicated. A magnificent orchestration, replete with Balinese gongs and percussives, gave it true exotic coloring...
...ingenious idea of removing the troublesome codes on agricultural by-products from the hands of both Mr. Peek and Mr. Tugwell is an indication of how important the President himself regards the smooth administration of the codes. The NRA itself is also adopting a somewhat more practical tone in its dealings with business. Much of this is due unquestionably to the rising tide of Congressional criticism, which means controversy in January. The Roosevelt administration is skillfully anticipating its opposition and mending its way accordingly
Lola Jean Harlow Space Lee Tracy Pops Frank Morgan Gifford Middleton Franchot Tone Brogan Pat O'Brien Mac Una Merkel Junior Ted Healy...