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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think Mr. Caldwell's warm heart and sympathies ran away with him. Aren't we all rather forgetting that the typical and usual German is a sentimental cheery good soul? Let's judge a little more by the ones we know and meet and less by the ones we only read about in the papers...
Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco held at Barajas Field, some eight miles from Madrid, a final review for the German, Italian and Spanish airmen who fought on his side in the war. Wearing the blue-grey uniform of the Spanish Air Force, flanked by his usual mounted Moorish guards, El Caudillo took the salute from 1,500 Italians of the Littorio Legion, 5,000 Germans of the Condor Legion, 3,500 Spaniards. To 15 German and eight Italian aviators he awarded the Spanish military medal. In a speech characterized by Latin expansiveness, the Generalissimo predicted that Spain's present...
While the U. S. almost had a coal shortage and Europe as usual was on the verge of war, the editor of Vogue, Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, last week addressed the Shoe Guild on another weighty problem. Said...
...famed Elizabethan Globe Theatre. Thanks to Director Margaret Webster, the Old Globe's Shakespeare is neither skittish nor stodgy. Four Shakespeare comedies-As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew-have been shrunk to a quarter their usual size, ironed without starch. Punched into shape as unceremoniously as a vaudeville act, Shakespeare's one-acters-runoff seven times a day-perk...
...Lucky Night," with Myrna Loy and Robert Taylor, should be swallowed only with a stiff antidote of Jonathan Edwards' Sermons. This hangover from the screwball comedies of Carole Lombard would be otherwise too tough to take. A night of recklessness and a drunken marriage, with all the usual complications, results in just another telling,--and a too, too giddy one--of an old story. The plot has no excuse except as a vehicle for MGM's big stars, and if the picture is merely a planetarium, it very definitely needs more power in the projector. The film is nothing more...