Word: bookworms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Adventure. Gable & Garson, in a bosun-meets-bookworm comedy...
Looking over the Sunday liberty list, we failed to find Casey "the Rabbit" O'Donnell partaking in the luxury. Could it be that his recent "H.P." has converted him into a bookworm--and then there's always the Charles River in June. Fred Stein has a sage remark or two about the cleaning service in Boston and requests that anyone who would like "vastly superior" service to contact his father, who is a dry-cleaning magnate--in Detroit. If this questionable weather continues, "T.C.U." Thomas says he's going home to Texas. Murray threatens to report him absent from muster...
Considered from a strictly technical point of view, the job was too great for the cast assigned to it. Sylvia Sydney seemed little more than adequate in her portrayal of Jo; she was too sophisticated at times for a sympathetic rendering of a tomboyish bookworm. Amy was the best-played character in the cast, with Edythe Ward giggling and mispronouncing her way to humor and at times adding a human interest touch. Otherwise the cast was decidedly mediocre, except for individual moments too scattered to be effective. Mary Barthclmess, as Beth, was little more than good in her playing...
...crisis which strikes a trapeze act while they are quartered in a horse doctor's house during a Brooklyn carnival run. A spindly graduate student of Columbia University falls in love with the troupe's ingenue and she threatens to quit the act for culture and her bookworm, which would deprive the brainless aerialists of their most attractive piece of ignorance...
...whose life was devoted to automobiles, young Chrysler, unlike young Vanderbilt, Labrot and Brady, was never taken to race tracks when he was a kid. A bookworm and esthete, he dabbled in book publishing and other arty ventures while still in his teens. Suddenly, last summer, he got the urge to own a string of race horses, went to Saratoga, bought nine yearlings, hired Oldtimer Henry McDaniel to train them. What young Chrysler lacked in turf knowledge, he began to pick up from old Uncle Henry, who in his 73 years has trained horses for Lucky Baldwin, Willis Sharpe Kilmer...