Word: arens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always faked for the effect on the other characters, who look at the ground most of the time, except when they look up to "drill" one another or to look fleetingly in one another's eyes and swear undying devotion in a casual voice. Typical lines: ''Aren't you getting a little hysterical?" "I know this whole sordid nightmare." "I won't stand this treachery." "Now you're getting sentimental." "He said, 'Don't be silly,' so I shot him." All the characters light cigarets at critical moments...
...This is the first time I've been in New England and I don't think that Boston audiences are bad at all. Everybody told me that they would be cold, but on the contrary, I think they are very receptive. The theaters, and the censors, aren't half bad, We haven't had a bit of trouble, except, of course, that we had to cut the act for the Sunday rule which says no dancing. That law seems funny to me, as I don't know of any other city which...
Said President Hutchins: "Although there have been many educational films before, this is the first organized large-scale effort on the part of a single uni-versity to make them.- And it fits very nicely into what you might call our 'experimental tradition.' But we aren't going into the entertainment business. We aren't trying to jazz up education...
...Speaking of newspaper men", she continued, "I am utterly disillusioned about them. The movies would have it that every reporter is springing with ready wit and just brimming with the jargon of the press. They aren't at all, they are just fat, middle-aged men who sit around and never think of rushing off to a fire with flying hair and their coats half on. I mourn the passing of the old time newspaper man who always speaks past the door man and turns up in the star's dressing room fully dressed as a chorine. Give...
Reporter: Aren't you finding it easier to talk to reporters...