Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Unhappily, Brown Buddies has very little to offer in the way of entertainment besides Bill Robinson. The situation is somewhat grotesque, having to do with a group of colored folk from East St. Louis who go to war, accompanied by comedians, chorus girls and an ingénue under the aegis of the Y. M. C. A. Adelaide Hall, a veteran of Blackbirds, is one of the noncombatants. Her singing and dancing is on a par with the entertainment furnished in a good many Harlem resorts. There are only two tunes, "In Missouria" and "Give Me AMan Like That,"which...
...group of curious Cuban engineers peered about in a small sheet-iron building at Matanzas Bay, Cuba, last week. They studied the arrangement of a lot of pipes and tanks, and of a board, covered with levers, buttons and gauges beside which stood Dr. Georges Claude, French academician. After three years of patient work, Dr. Claude was ready to give the first public demonstration of his method for taking Power from the sea (TIME, Sept. 22 et ante...
Atlantic (Elstree). Although Director E. A. Du Pont (who made Variety) directed this, it suffers from the flowery dialog and annoying deliberation peculiar to most British films. Like The Deluge, Journey's End and Submarine, it shows how a group of people behave when they are facing death. This time the setting is a trans-Atlantic liner which sinks after hitting an iceberg. If the producers had used some of the stories that have been current for two decades about the crash of the Titanic, or even if they had used the Titanic's passenger list...
...front of the black panther's cage in the Bronx Zoo. Last week before the Pittsburgh Show opened he was aboard ship, on his way back to Paris. Reporters might have fared better with First Prizeman Picasso. Friend of Matisse, but never a member of his early group of insurgents, Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts), Pablo Ruiz Picasso has theories on art and believes in them. With remarkable technical ability, he might easily have become an adept forger. From his early days as one of the founders of Cubism he has been ceaselessly experimenting, changing his style of drawing...
...extend the development of Associated Telephone & Telegraph Co. Behind the new company with Transamerica are Theodore Gary & Co. of Kansas City ($20,000,000 stock to be taken by them) and British interests who have participated with Theodore Gary & Co. in Associated's development (to this group: $6,000,000 worth of stock). Chief of these British associates is Sir Alexander Forbes Proctor Roger, director of some 20 companies, chairman of several. Of these, British Insulated Cables, Ltd., is most potent...