Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Camille (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For this version of Alexandre Dumas' famed tearjerker, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer assembled the three best current writers of tearjerkers, the top director of tearjerkers, the screen's No. i tragedienne and the industry's current male box-office sensation. The result, against the lush background of Art Director Cedric Gibbons' notion of 19th Century Paris, equipped with generous measures of sorrow, pictorial beauty, charm, plot, glamour and audience appeal, amounts to a Camillennium...
...been fascinated by the weird poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Before the War he determined to work into a symphony Poe's tinkling sleigh bells, golden marriage bells, frightened alarm bells and bitter, iron-tongued dirge bells. As text he used Russian Poet Constantin Balmont's version of Poe's second most famous poem, completed the work...
...experiment, young people capable of putting on entertainments that will attract paying guests-are a series of acts which show what has become of old-fashioned vaudeville. Samples: Gracie Allen. George Burns and Ben Blue dancing the minuet; Martha Raye stretching her monstrous mouth; Jack Benny in a burlesque version of Love in Bloom; Marsha Hunt and Leif Erikson singing to each other...
...vertically). He got the idea of disconnecting the helicopter propeller from the engine, enlarging it. Result in 1920 was the first autogiro, which did not fly. Neither did the second or third model. Then, according to legend, Music Lover de la Cierva and his wife were at an operatic version of Don Quixote when he noticed that the flexible blades of the stage windmill flapped slightly as they turned. He made the rotor blades of his next giro flexible. In January 1923, it flew...
...Wycherley's four major comedies. It holds up dullness as the worst of sins, wit as the greatest virtue. If it preaches anything at all, it is that sex is, at bottom, a laughing matter. The play was revived on Broadway by Augustin Daly, in a heavily bowdlerized version, 52 years...