Word: waned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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High Pressure (Warner). Since the departure of gang pictures, the cinema has developed half a dozen minor trends to take their place. One, already on the wane, was for "kid pictures." like Skippy, Sooky, Huckleberry Finn. Another was for "one location" stories, like Transatlantic, Union Depot, the forthcoming Hotel Continental and Grand Hotel. A third, closest to the technique of gang pictures, was a series of surveys of exciting occupations, such as taxi-driving, gambling, swindling and reporting...
...Sweaty Exorcists on Wane...
...juxtaposition on the same bill of "Rebound" and "The Magnificent Lie" invites comparison of the work of the respective actresses, one of whom is gaining popularity with each successive production, while the other has patently passed her zenith and is definitely on the wane...
...Cafe Europejska, most fashionable in Warsaw. There, amid popping champagne corks, loud Polish music and exciting Polish women, they made the crazy-quilt politics of Poland. In 1929, however, so many "Pilsudski Colonels" were called to onerous tasks of Government that cafe politics have been on the wane. Never a very good cafe politician was small, stern, intensely militant (although sartorially perfect) Col. Alexander Prystor...
Lately Adolf Hitler's strength has seemed to wane. In the German State of Oldenburg last week he waxed mightily. The election was for the local Diet, but Chancellor Heinrich Bruning of all Germany went out to electioneer against the Fascists...