Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anyway Johnny Bull and Papa Daladier will hire(?) us but at what a price...
Alexander Graham Bell lived in what was essentially a materialistic age, a fact that may have prompted RKO not to make fame an end in itself in the screen biography that bears his name, now showing at the Keith Memorial. Anyway, Don Ameche is called on not only to portray how the inventor of the telephone obtained recognition but also to show how he gained riches. In the first assignment, all is reasonably smooth sailing. Aided by Loretta Young, Don Ameche gives a fairly convincing life portrait of Bell in his rise from a cold attic to the court...
...fancies had turned to where they usually did at that time of year. As he handed the tickets to the scarlet-clad Cossack at the door, he was complaining to himself, "This is no job for a college man, and why can't the kid's nurse take him, anyway?" He had just decided that he was bored with it all, when he missed Billy...
...brilliant success of the show the cast is mainly responsible. Their enthusiasm, their esprit de corps, their sense of comedy, all made the audience forget they didn't know Greek and have a grand time anyway watching some of the best horse-play this side of Broadway, a Sophic Tucker version of a Greek poem, an angel on roller-skates, a Heracles in striped pyjamas, and above all, Harvard as the Cloudcuckootown! Backing up the cast was an original musical score and masks, costumes, backdrops, done with skill and rare humor. Congratulations should also go to a gentleman named Aristophanes...
Years ago-30 anyway and perhaps 40-a bill was introduced in Congress providing that our country be known henceforth as "Usona," short for United States of North America [TIME, March 13 et seq.]. Whereupon John Sharp Williams of Mississippi moved as a substitute that instead of "Usona" the name be "Weuns." The bill got no farther...