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...Turney's studiously poetic dialog lacks the full-blooded majesty and thunder that would have enabled it to prevail against the magnificent settings of Jo Mielziner. And Actresses Mendelssohn and Roos, playing their parts like transplanted Lady Macbeths, reduce the play to the proportions of a family feud among the Borgias...
...Hobbes and thinks of Spain, the embattled loyalists running for cover, food gone, hearts gone, courage gone, the Cause gone. Snarling Whites plunging down the craggy Spanish hills, naked to their waists, indomitable, their powder dry-and plenty of it. Liberty! We Spit On Thee....A dictator, blood and thunder, kill the damn Reds, Vive L'Espagna....An ideology crumbles before gunfire...
...with a "nonpolitical" speech, President Roosevelt left his train at Knoxville, climbed into an open automobile and headed a caravan of Democratic Governors and Congressmen up a new 140-mile highway through Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Its woodsy peaks and valleys "thrilled and delighted" him. Caught in a thunder shower at lunch time, he wriggled into a slicker, washed down fried chicken and caviar sandwiches with a bottle of beer. At a Cherokee Indian Reservation near Sylva, N. C., Chief Standing Deer (Jerry Blythe) capped the President with a headdress of eagle feathers, mumbled some Cherokee which made...
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Three major difficulties stood in the way. First was that the Dallas Exposition comes right on top of two World's Fairs, Chicago's and San Diego's. Dallas stole their thunder. The Dallas Fair buildings are in a style reminiscent of the Century of Progress, but not quite so modernistic and spiced with a Mexican flavor. Indirect lighting on a grand scale is provided. The approach (admission 50?) is past a 300-ft. lagoon, flanked by a Transportation building (emphasis on oil as motive power) and a Hall of Electricity, to a great State of Texas...