Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that was picked often but did not wilt. Impersonated by Mae West, she thrives and collects diamonds with each picking. Mae is picked up by the story as the chatelaine of Noah Beery, a trusting old fellow who runs a cabaret and modest little white slave business. Having a bit of time to spare Mae befriends a young would-be suicidess, visits some ex-beaus who are taking the cure at Sing Sing, juggles with the attentions of Gigolo Gilbert Roland, Racketeer David Landau and Salvation Army Captain Gary Grant. Complications begin when Beery hijacks the suicidess for his Barbary...
...Mirror offices, devised a scenario which called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar of the presses getting out an extra. Grofé was so determined to give an accurate picture of the death house that he visited Sing Sing, pretending...
...insignificant little fat man whose only qualification for the part is a completely bald head. May Robson, in the part of one of Annie's numerous sponsors, is the only redeeming feature. And those who are touched by sweet and sentimental little children may be able to squeeze a bit of eye-moisture out of Buster Phelps saying his prayers at Grandma's knee. But the show as a whole is criminally dull...
Design For Living, which some spectators may find a bit decadent in spots, is a worthy successor to, if not an entertaining equal of, the playwright's previous Private Lives. Its deficiency is in the kind of hysterical laughter which in Private Lives fairly convulsed the gravest sophisticate and exalted Noel Coward to the front rank of fun-makers...
...funniest sequence in Private Lives was the rough-and-tumble finale of Act II in which Mr. Coward and Miss Lawrence scrambled on the floor after she had cracked a phonograph record over his head. Even this delicious bit of business had its roots in earlier Coward work. The Rat Trap (unproduced) not only ended its second act in similar vein but its third as well. Perhaps it all goes back further than that, for when he was a child Playwright Coward once bashed a little girl on the head with a spade because she would not take seriously...