Word: tsars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank holiday, declared a 50% salary cut, to last for three or four weeks while they thought up more effective ways to save their business. By last week, most major studios had resumed paying full salaries to contract employes. After a week of producers' conferences, presided over by Tsar Will Hays, it became possible to see the two main results of the salary cuts and the condition that had produced them...
...Night (Universal) is, as the title suggests, a timidly salacious little comic-strip, showing that its producers do not believe Tsar Will Hays's latest pronunciamento that "The general public today demand higher, not lower . . . standards from the screen." It shows an overgrown lout named Ronald Colgate (George "Slim" Summerville) trying to escape from the apron strings of an idiotically devoted mother (Laura Hope Crews) long enough to pay court to the nurse (Zasu Pitts) in a department store depositary for infants. When Ronald finally manages to marry his inamorata, Mrs. Colgate follows them to Niagara Falls on their...
Most deplorable to Chief Russell is the government of Little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria. Poppies and roses grow well in Bulgaria. Since the forcible closing of the Turkish factories the centre of the illegal drug traffic has moved from Istanbul to Sofia. Nine narcotic factories are now operating in Bulgaria. Largest and most important is Balkans Products Co., Ltd., which opened a new factory at Radomir in October. In two months Balkans Products produced a "snow" storm of 1,500 kilograms-one and one-half tons-of heroin, all of which, according to Chief Russell, was smuggled into France...
...value of souls. . . ." He invited all nations to "consider what serious moral, intellectual and even material disaster is inevitably being prepared wherever the Church is openly or covertly combatted." One sorrow the Pope mentioned was the Orthodox baptism, instead of Catholic baptism as pledged, of the daughter of Orthodox Tsar Boris and Catholic Tsaritsa loanna of Bulgaria (TIME, March 6); but he declared that the Tsaritsa was in no sense guilty, having "neither strength nor means to express her opposition...
Charges that Tsar Boris and his Italian-born Tsaritsa broke a prenuptial, written pledge to Pope Pius XI when they permitted their first child, a girl, to be baptized Bulgarian Orthodox (TIME, Jan. 23), have been met by angry Bulgarians with the demand: "Produce the document...