Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filed. The New York News humphed editorially: "Nevertheless, we'd rather see seven reels of Ginger Rogers, Jeanette MacDonald or several others. . . ." And last week the New Masses, following its Marxian line, grumped that Disney had bowdlerized Grimm's "savage and moral" tale, had turned out a version "a little too genial," with "too much of the trees-in-the-breeze quality...
Robert Louis Stevenson never saw a moving picture. He might not have liked Hollywood's version of his Treasure Island (1934). But he would have had a fit at what somebody had done to his unsexy story in the new Soviet film: transformed Cabin-boy Jim Hawkins into a pretty blonde. The guilty somebody was Boris Z. Shumiatsky, Will Hays of the Soviet cinema industry. Last week Boris Shumiatsky was out of a job. Other charges against him: 1) that in attempting to freight "a bourgeois adventure story" with significance he had introduced the Irish revolutionary movement without considering...
...satiny nightclub belt. Last week in Philadelphia, plumper, still tousled, sad-eyed and sobby-voiced, Helen Morgan sang in three-a-day variety at cheap Fay's Theatre on Market Street. The matinee audience was unenthusiatic. "I got the bird," she reported, demonstrating with a lady-like version. "Only," she added, "it was worse, much worse. They had their tongues out, the bums...
...dark, hefty Hungarian soprano. Rose Pauly. who heaved and panted through 15 curtain calls after her Metropolitan debut in the title role. Other objects : the sinister, pasty-faced Klytemnestra of Kerstin Thorborg; the brilliant conducting of Artur Bodanzky. Pauly, whose last year's appearance in a concert version of Elektra under Conductor Artur Rodzinski was the sensation of the Philharmonic-Symphony season (TIME, March 29), prowled the stage like a maimed tigress, managed to give Strauss's frantic, maniacal heroine a quality of grandeur. Undaunted by gut-busting vocal hurdles, she sang, moaned and screamed her part, heating...
...giant version of the pneumatic cash carrier system familiar to most department store customers, the 8-inch tubes of the underground mail service resemble gas mains, the containers that glide through them at 30 m. p. h. are about the size of fire extinguishers. As there is no switching, every carrier pops out at each station, is retained or passed on according to its destination mark. Motive power in the tube is a current of air blown into the system from powerhouses en route. Each 120-lb. steel container holds up to 500 letters. Every day the system efficiently carries...