Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lynched, himself flogged. Gathering a huge band of outlaws, he ravages the State from end to end, not, like Robin Hood, to protect the common people, but solely for bloody revenge. Result is the goriest picture of the year, well-acted, beautifully photographed, but prevented from being a second Viva Villa by its sententious moralizing, its frequent digression into scenes suited only to light operetta...
...council, went to a figurehead from the carpenters' union, James William Williams. Last week Plasterer McDonough brought the old fight to a crisis when he appeared at the Atlantic City convention, demanded a seat in the name of his rumpsters. Mr. Green confidently put the question to a viva voce vote, announced that Mr. McDonough had been counted out. "NO!" the convention roared back at startled Mr. Green. The roll-call vote on a proposal to withhold action on Mr. McDonough's ouster until a compromise might be settled this week...
...what the effect would be," James ( "Jimmie") Donahue, Woolworth 5?-&-10? heir, cousin of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz. stepped onto a balcony of his Rome hotel, shouted "Viva Ethiopia " squirted a syphon of soda water at a group of young Fascists. Effect: two Government agents presently escorted Playboy Donahue to the Italian frontier...
Except for Carl Laemmle Jr. of Universal Pictures, David Selznick is the only able producing son of an able producing father in Hollywood. In an industry filled with jittery peewees, he is distinguished by being large, placid and affable. At M-G-M his most successful ventures were Viva Villa and David Copperfield, two of the most expensive pictures of last year. Of United Artists' 1935-36 schedule of 30 pictures, Producer Selznick will probably make six. The company which next autumn will revive the legend, obsolete for 13 years, "Selznick Presents" will be called David O. Selznick Productions...
...Brought startled newshawks scurrying in from the halls when it rejected with one of the loudest viva voce votes on record, a proposal by Tennessee's John Ridley Mitchell to abolish Congressmen's mileage allowance. Having also voted down Congressman Mitchell's amendment forbidding Congressmen to hire their relatives as clerks, it promptly passed a $20,357,165 legislative supply bill, up $886,134 from the current year's appropriation for Congress' upkeep...