Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Garden of the Moon (Warner Bros.) represents a valiant effort on the part of its producers to understand and satisfy the mystic cravings of that big segment of the U. S. public now known as "jitter-bugs." Whether or not jitterbugs will like Garden of the Moon remains to be seen, but normal cinemaddicts probably will not. A morbidly cheerful little study of the rages induced in a café proprietor (Pat O'Brien) by his hysterical efforts to hire a satisfactory orchestra, it reaches its comic peak when he makes his pressagent (Margaret Lindsay) believe he is dying...
...with Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, the male population added up to about 29,000. On the strength of this record Lopez has usually been considered a strong candidate for first place in the ranks of the world's worst rulers. Last week William Barrett made a valiant attempt to restore Lopez' tarnished laurels with a romantic, fictionized biography that paid a great deal of attention to the tremendous odds against which Lopez was foolish enough to fight...
...Barcelona, less than 100 miles away, to the microphone leaped Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, exhorting all Leftist Spain to "join our valiant stand against the barbaric invasion directed by the hangmen of Europe...
...grandson, Bayard, and his playmate, a negro boy, gradually progress from childhood into manhood, always under her influence and as-similating her valiant spirit and indomitable will. Ringo, the negro, is recognized almost on a level with Bayard, and in many ways he appears to be his superior. It is he on whom Granny Sarforis leans for support in the crucial moments. He is always in her confidence in her plots, while Bayard seems to act on his orders without knowing...
...hectic days which followed it became clear that even the most embittered French political leaders sensed that France was sitting on a powder-keg. The President called in quick succession Radical Socialist Georges Bonnet, Socialist Leon Blum-both of whom quickly failed to form a Cabinet. A valiant attempt was made to arrange a "National Government" in which Right & Left would collaborate to spare France possible armed strife. The franc meanwhile sank on international exchange to its lowest in eleven years...