Word: beane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to ask the Harvard students who attended the Carnival this year if they enjoyed the company of the following young ladies whose names appeared on the list of registered guests: Billy Burke, Ellnor Bean, Betty Button, Alice Fair, Florence Fine, Grace Frank, Dorothy Golly, Cynthia Jump, Georgia Ann Inksetter, Charity Mason, Elizabeth Pettibone, Marion Romp, Minnie Phift, Betsy Ross, Mary Power, Sophie Tucker, Phoebe Weed, Jean Spooner, Letta Turtie, Ima Smack, Mae Weston, Margaret Will, Mary Wood, and Helen Wont. There are 856 girls registered as guests at the Carnival--now wouldn't the statisticians have a good time...
...mustn't hold it against "Christopher Bean" if the Hollywood press-agents have assaulted your ears with its praises, tricked up in their own inimitable surprise packages. It is a good picture. Lionel Barrymore, in the part of a country doctor who once cared for Chris Bean before his death, and who now possesses several of his pictures, is superb. His part is a difficult one, for he is required to portray a character not like the rest of humankind, and yet not strange enough to be got over with a bit of heavy "character acting," Dr. Haggett, finding that...
Cedric Webster Hardwicke, who played in George Bernard Shaw's The Applecart, in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, is now playing to jammed houses in The Late Christopher Bean, but who has never played in Manhattan: knighted...
...shrieked once (feminine), then went wild as a second shriek proclaimed a boy. Strangers solemnly congratulated each other in the streets, on tramcars, in trains, on ferry boats. Husbands and wives flung themselves into an embrace. Shining-faced little boys and girls were treated by beaming shopkeepers to delicious bean-sugar cakes. Meanwhile-the Sword! A precious blade, short and strong, forged by the Imperial Swordsmith, Sadakatsu Gassan, it was presented to the newborn Crown Prince, not by his father direct-for the Emperor of Japan acts always through intermediaries-but by proud old Admiral Kantaro Suzuki as the Emperor...
Produced last winter as a play, Christopher Bean emerges in the cinema only mildly impaired by scenes such as a wild ride in a dilapidated Ford and a preposterous interlude in a Pullman car, inserted to give Marie Dressier a chance to execute her comic chompings, blinkings and shoulder twitchings. Good shot: Beulah Bondi, when she wants him to cheat their old servant, urging Lionel Barrymore to think with his eyes closed...