Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...where the picture has been shown before. . . ." > "He finds he can't get lunch in the building; and, if he leaves, he has to pay another admission. . . ." > "It would cost very little to give each patron a leaflet with a small map of the building and a brief sketch of the most important things to be seen and where to find them...
...Castles starts when Vernon (Fred Astaire) is working as stooge in a revue sketch with Lew Fields (Lew Fields). When he meets Irene Foote (Ginger Rogers), daughter of a New Rochelle doctor, he is first horrified by her amateurish version of Bessie McCoy's Yama Yama dance, then by her brash assumption, after watching him cut loose with a few tap steps on the station platform, that the future holds more for him than a putty nose...
...record of six months' travel in Czecho-Slovakia before Munich, North of the Danube contains eight sensitive, compact sketches by Erskine Caldwell, 64 photographs which include some of the best Margaret Bourke-White has done. Slighter than their classic word & picture study of the South, You Have Seen Their Faces, it unfortunately appears when Czecho-Slovakia is a last year's bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected...
Your article on Hearst [TIME, March 13], plus Baker's sketch, make the best feature that TIME has published in many a long...
Already a program tentatively called "America goes to War" is being prepared which will sketch in dramatic form this country's drift to war from 1914 to 1917. This will be based on a careful study of such works as mark Sullivan's "Over There," the litters of Colonel House, Walter Millia's "Road to War," and Graitan's "Why We Fought...