Word: vein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music will make climactic use of the tumtum beats conceived by Playwright Oneill. There will be a few lyric moments at least, when Jones calls on the Lord to save him. No one would predict the rest last week. Composer Gruenberg wrote his Jazziest and Enchanted Isle in ultramodern vein but the score he wrote for Jack & the Beanstalk (TIME, Nov. 30) was as simple and childlike as John Erskine's libretto...
...Graysonia showed a hunk of red rock. "Cinna-bar," explained the geologist. "Put it in a fire pot. It will run quicksilver." That is one version of the start of a current rush to mine mercury in the Ozarks. Another version is that railroad laborers exposed a valuable vein of cinnabar near Amity when they blasted out some sandstone riprap...
...lighter vein, Buster Keaton, is playing in "The Passionate Plumber," and for those who like Buster Keaton, there are some funny if familiar situations. Paris would be the setting, and the gestulations and excitability of the French must inevitably be relied upon to furnish many laughs...
...only U. S. woman delegate, Dr. Mary Emma Woolley, began to take her active part in the conference last week. Her great speech was made the day before King George spoke in Buckingham Palace but in much the same vein. Fervently, Dr. Woolley exclaimed...
...filming "Around the World in Eighty Minutes" Douglas Fairbanks has made the most entertaining travelogue that the Playgoer has ever soon. The photography alone would recommend it highly, but this is only part. Mr. Fairbanks' running-fire comment, through starting out somewhat in the Graham McNamee vein, grows better and better as time goes by. Above all, there is an incredibly clever continuity to make a smoothly-flowing film out of disconnected scenes. Mr. Fairbanks is never at a loss to provide transitions: one moment he commands a gigantic map to appear on the floor, so that he can stride...