Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...color replaces black & white photography, the change will be less abrupt than that from silent pictures to sound, partly because color requires no new exhibiting apparatus. Nonetheless, the swing to color, barely perceptible last year, will be highly noticeable in 1936-37. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine and Dancing Pirate were last season's only colored features. Next season United Artists will make six, Twentieth Century-Fox two, Paramount two, Warner, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Amkino one each...
...director, who got a divorce from Mack Truckman Alfred Joseph Brosseau in 1930 because he slapped her face when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. Small, grim, wiry Mrs. Brosseau said that whenever the U. S. had "paused on the long trail of progress," women had been "right there with their first-aid kits. The state at which we have arrived," she cried, "did not spring up in a night. It dates back to the Secret Order of the Illuminati, which was organized in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt of Bavaria, and which caused the fomenting of revolutions...
...trail for "big names'' behind this Catholic-hating, Negro-hating, Communist-hating group and other floggings and murders which could be pinned on it, newshawks discovered that there was a defunct women's division. "I'm the colonel and proud of it," disclosed a Mrs. Grace Lupp of Highland Park. "The auxiliary was organized two years ago, solely for political purposes. . . . We tried to keep it a clean organization, but we found it was very difficult. . . ." Willingly "Captain" Geraldine Nankervis explained the Legion's virtues: "It keeps our husbands out of beer gardens...
...ready to furnish for cash, savings bankbooks or deposits on call at building & loan societies. Catch was that enough speculative cemeteries to bury Cleveland's dead for 200 years to come had already been laid out, but the promoters glibly promised 100% profits in 60 days. Following their trail. Investigator Fritchey discovered that the cemetery racket was cleaning up some $2,000,000 a year of gullible money drawn from Cleveland and all parts of Ohio...
...Royal Wilbur France- Dorrance ($2.50). Following close on the heels of Alvin Johnson (TIME, April 20), another economist takes to fiction, offering a case study of a bright young lawyer who chooses political success at the cost of his ideals. Professor France holds his own in following the slimy trail of corruption, slips into a bog of cliches in his love scenes. DEATH IS A LITTLE MAN-Minnie Hite Moody-Julian Messner ($2.50). Depressing description of the private lives of some Georgia Negroes, written in an un-nerving combination of literate English and darky dialect. A CRIME-Georges Bernanos-Dutton...