Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That was Mr. President in his Great Guy act. But I saw him in his Statesman act also at an election meeting; and we all know the result of the election...
Noel Coward is not so penetrating a comedian or author as Sacha Guitry, but Mr. Coward has the good fortune to write and act in English, the language which pays best. He is not nearly so funny a playwright as George S. Kaufman, but he is more versatile, more productive, does all his own work. He never brought to his upper-class tragicomedies the range or authority or humor of Philip Barry, but he has lasted longer. All these qualities which Noel Coward has and has not have made him the world's most prosperous showman. He has written...
...Simplicio & Lucio Godino made world news by applying for licenses to marry Natividad and Victorina Motos in Manila. The marriage license clerk objected for fear of compounding collateral bigamy but the sisters and brothers eventually were married. They organized a vaudeville act in which they danced, saxophoned and bantered through South and North America...
Chapter 5. Next year the company did better, ending 1933 with a net loss of $4,384,000. The day President Roosevelt signed the 776 amendment to the Federal Bankruptcy Act (June 1934), RKO filed under the new law. Handsome box-office returns on Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in 1934 helped RKO to end the year with a net loss of only...
...romps around, paying off childhood scores, until he becomes known as the fiend of Hollywood, while the golden-haired child star takes to whiskey and soda and pays calls on cinema queens. But to speak of Wodehouse's plot is like speaking of the plot of a trapeze act, for his characters merely leap from one precarious situation to another, defying time and space, in an exhibition that will please old Wodehouse admirers, but win no new ones...