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...program will close Thursday afternoon with an address given by Anna Louise Strong of Russia, who will speak on "The Far East--Is War Inevitable?" Miss Strong has crossed many frontiers during the past months and the discussion will concern "The People's Front...
...figures on which figure skating is based are not a test of skill, but the vocabulary of a form of self-expression which for sheer elegance compares to ballet dancing as the ballet compares to the Lindy-hop. Skater Henie's No. i specialty, as it was Dancer Anna Pavlova's, is a swan dance. On the shrewd assumption that a cinema public which had never before investigated figure skating needed to be educated before witnessing the rarest flower of the art. Producer Darryl Zanuck insisted that she save it for a subsequent picture. What her cinema debut...
...desultory skirmish the luckless geologist having been given to vague, if not sly, business methods Somewhat the same methods also seemed to have carried over into his marital relations. While he was a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 he elopec with a nurse named Frances Anna Strasilipka, a Bohemian shoemaker's daughter whom he deserted five months later, leaving her with child, which died at birth That was the last Wife No. i ever heard of Washington Henry Ochsner until someone sent her a clipping reporting his death Meantime Ochsner got a divorce in Goldfield...
...four houses on each side, an obscure Paris cranny favored by refugees and exiles because the rent is low. There, in 1920, the Barabas family from Hungary found refuge, while Papa Barabas tried to find work in his trade as a furrier. They were an ambitious, warmhearted, restless outfit. Anna, the oldest girl, was emotional, observant, quick to understand other people's troubles but a little helpless about helping them as she wanted to. She took care of the house, did the marketing, while her mother worked in a laundry. Her young brother Jani dived into the strange world...
...Street of the Fishing Cat responds like a seismograph to every shift in European politics. Anna Barabas works for a dressmaker, loses her job when French and Hungarian political relations grow tense. Her scheming sweetheart is arrested in a swindle, jailed, deported to Hungary, where he becomes a movie director. Anna and her father make a desperate expedition to South America, try to return to Hungary, symbolically find work in Paris when Franco-Hungarian relations improve. Just as the small foreign colony grows stable it is disrupted again by a flood of German refugees. Anna, as divided in mind...