Word: trappings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy's chief cinema censor is Benito Mussolini, and his standards are Mother Hubbardish. But this month Il Duce let down all bars for the International Film Exposition at Venice. To bait this Fascist trap for tourists every major film firm in the world was permitted to send one picture, presumably its best, to be exhibited uncensored. Last week the Venice film show had been stolen by Extase ("Ecstasy"), a Czechoslovak film which nearly every country in the world has suppressed...
...treacherously plotting a coup against himself, brandished General Göring's proofs under their noses, flew into a passion and tore the Nazi insignia off their brown uniforms. S. S. troops with machine guns meanwhile bottled up the S. A. leaders in Chancellor Hitler's trap. Then leaping into a car the Chancellor dashed for queer Captain Roehm's luxurious snuggery...
...runaway horse in Central Park and saving a banker's lovely daughter. But all he gets out of that is the loss of an eye. He goes to jail again, is held prisoner in a bawdy house, goes West to dig gold, loses his leg in a bear trap, is attacked by Indians led by a Harvard-educated chief. Convincingly scalped, he makes a precarious living in a sideshow, acts as a clown in vaudeville, finally bows to a Communist-assassin's bullet, and becomes in death the martyred hero of the fascist "Leather Shirts." a nationwide organization...
...EMERALD MURDER TRAP-Jackson Gregory-Scribner ($2). Wicked old Paradene's trap was not long empty; it caught more than he wanted, because of Mr. Paul Savoy...
...spring of a mousetrap, friction matches to the base. Carefully he pulled the spring back and held it at tension with a piece of adhesive tape. Then he put his contrivance in a grain field and from hiding waited until the sun melted the adhesive and sprang the trap which ignited the matches and set fire to 1,600 acres of grain...