Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This "dialogue discussion" will be held at the Twentieth Century Adult Education Centre tomorrow evening, at 8 o'clock...
...STRUGGLING THROUGH GLOOM AND IGNORANCE ACCOUNT ABSENCE OF MARCH OF TIME FROM LOCAL SILVER SCREENS. URGE IMMEDIATE STEPS TO RESTORE DESERVING MILWAUKEANS TO FELLOWSHIP WITH OTHER INTELLIGENT AMERICANS THROUGH TIME-WORTHY MEDIUM OF VISUAL EDUCATION. PLEASE ADVISE WHAT MILWAUKEE THEATRE WILL TAKE LEAD IN SHOWING THIS OUTSTANDING FEATURE OF TWENTIETH CENTURY BEGINNING WITH FIRST RELEASE...
Folies Bergere de Paris (Twentieth Century). Believing that the title, plot and star of this picture would make it especially acceptable to French audiences, Producer Darryl Zanuck did more than "dub in" French dialog. Folies Bergere was made twice, once in English, once in French. The French version of each scene was made immediately after the English one, on the same set. Maurice Chevalier is the only performer who appears in both versions. The French one, in which the leading lady is Princess Paley, includes a tableau of nude models, jokes which would alarm the Legion of Decency...
Faster than Twentieth Century (54.1 m.p.h.), faster than the Broadway Limited (51.2 m.p.h.), faster than the Burlington's famed Zephyr (49.5 m.p.h.) was the train that Chicago & North Western Ry, sent over the rails between Chicago and Minneapolis last week. Called The 400 because it covers 400 miles in 400 minutes, North Western's new train made railroad history by being the fastest train scheduled on the American Continent, fastest in all the world on a stretch over 200 mi. But what made The 400 really significant news was that it was neither lightweight nor streamlined, powered...
...pants, does not save The Band Plays On from being worse than most of its kind. Silliest shot: Betty Furness telling her fiance, Robert Young, that he must continue college because as soon as he becomes a lawyer they will have plenty of money. The Mighty Barnum (Twentieth Century) introduces its hero (Wallace Beery) as the proprietor of a Manhattan general store, busily trading lightning rods for three-headed frogs while a friend has delirium tremens in Mrs. Barnum's bed. As soon as Bailey Walsh (Adolphe Menjou) is able to stand up, he and Barnum buy a livery...