Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Terror of Tiny Town (Jed Buell). "If this economy drive keeps on, we'll end up using midgets for actors." To hefty, thrifty Movie Producer Jed Buell this crack of a subordinate was intended as a reproof. Instead it gave him an idea. Soon he was collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from...
...novelty horse opera, but only once did they really howl : when three-foot-nine Hero Billy Curtis, pursuing three-foot-nine villain Little Billy, galloped off on a black pony, was soon scooting along on a white pony, finished the chase on the black. Trouble with The Terror of Tiny Town, Producer Buell was soon to realize, was that without a few normal-sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell's half-pint stock company will have something to stack up against. They will act out the legend of the mighty...
...confident, romantic, tragic Pepe le Moko, and Joseph Spurin-Calleia's unhurried, calculating Slimane are cinememorable. So are Director John Cromwell's handling of this strangely fraternal, chaseless man hunt, and such intense scenes as that in which an informer (Gene Lockhart), backing away in terror as his executioners advance, jars a mechanical piano into action, dies to a ragtime tune. But best of all is the smoldering, velvet-voiced, wanton-mouthed femme fatale of Algiers, black-haired, hazel-eyed Viennese Actress Hedy Kiesler (Hollywood name: Hedy Lamarr). Her coming may well presage a renewal of the sultry...
...series of articles in the New York Herald Tribune last week Mr. Sheean gloomily summed up his investigations. "The impression made by ten days of observation of the new Vienna is that National Socialism has a firm grip on the life of the place and has come to stay. Terror reigns throughout the population and nobody dares give a plain answer to a plain question. . . . All the jails are full and the concentration camp at Dachau (near Munich) has grown to unwieldy proportions. . . . The total number placed in jails since March 12 (when Austria was annexed by the Reich...
...specific cause of any of them. Pathologists know that it has something to do with lack of iodine, hormone imbalance or germs. The difficulty is especially perplexing in the case of exophthalmic goitre. This is the most dramatic type, giving the victim's features an expression of terror, his heart palpitations, and his disposition the fidgets...