Word: bachelor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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University: "Biography of a Bachelor Girl," 3.25, 6.25, 9.25. "Charlie Chan in Paris...
...Live Tonight (Columbia). A gay bachelor (Tullio Carminati) sings a waltz to a young girl (Lilian Harvey) whom he picked up in the Casino, took aboard his yacht. Fearing he loves her honestly, he sails away alone without telling her why. When he returns, the girl has agreed to marry his brother. Clearing the matter up takes much dialog and some music. Best shot: the final one, in which the heroine hears the theme song, "Love Passes By," played by a hurdy-gurdy, tooted on an automobile horn, sung by a beautician, a gardener and Carminati...
After withered Bachelor Lord Snell had pointed out that in 1933 alone 2,416 persons were jailed for debt in the British Isles, the Archbishop of Canterbury joined numerous Noble Lords in declaring that ''no delinquent should ever be imprisoned for any type of debt when nonpayment arises from inability...
Most notable violator of that rule is Frank O. King, who draws "Gasoline Alley" for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Fourteen years ago grey-haired Cartoonist King singled out his favorite character, fat Bachelor Walt Wallet, surprised him one morning with a fondling infant on his doorstep. Thus Skeezix. As years rolled by Frank King let Skeezix grow out of babyhood. Meanwhile Walt had become prosperous, married his comely neighbor Phyllis Blossom. With careful delicacy Cartoonist King shielded her form and feelings during pregnancy until, six years ago, Baby Corkleigh ("Corky") was born to the Wallets. While Skeezix lengthened into gangling...
Considerably dressed down for the cinema audience and even with its name changed. "Biography," that stage success of last year now appears as "Biography of a Bachelor Girl." Much of S. N. Behrman's theme of the struggle between mature tolerance and impulsive youth has been scrapped. In its place is a story more suited to the specialized talents of Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery. Most unfortunate is the demise of the character Fedyak, that charming cosmopolitan and Bohemian, as played by Edward Arnold, Still, it must be said that snatches of Behrman's intelligent wit remain in the dialogue...