Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chief Executive, Franklin Roosevelt let it be intimated at the White House that, with business improving, higher taxes might not be needed to "balance the Budget by 1941"-a point of view which cynics thought might be revised after election...
...famed Madame Tussaud's all the great characters of history are exhibited in wax. On Broadway this season much the same thing is being done in grease paint. Already Abraham Lincoln, Jesse James, Pieter Stuyvesant, Gilbert & Sullivan, Marie Antoinette, Queen Victoria and Oscar Wilde have been on view;* this week brings Danton and Robespierre; the next few weeks promise Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, General Howe, Queen Elizabeth, Madame Jumel, Lord Byron, Herod and Harriet Beecher Stowe...
...With Wings (Paramount) is the first Technicolor picture with an aeronautical background. It is also the first picture with an aeronautical background that attempts to take the long view of flying, not as hazardous profession or exciting adventure but as the latest and most spectacular chapter in the long history of transport. Starting with the Wright Brothers' first, incredible, 59-second hop, Men With Wings proceeds, with great pictorial beauty and praiseworthy attention to authenticity, to run through the whole amazing chronicle of aviation. For its intention and for its photographic content the picture deserves to rank...
...body of men who can face the machine on equal terms," crawling forward to meet advancing tanks outside Toledo; the crew of a wrecked bomber carried out of the mountains by peasants, the long, winding, anguished procession stretching through vast ravines like a living symbol of the peasants' view of war-such flashes as these make Man's Hope more memorable than its story or its message...
Yale coach Ducky Pond sent his two ace backs Bud Humphrey and Al Wilson, both slightly wounded, to view the clash and get a glance on what they will see more closely in two weeks. They were impressed...