Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Houses. In Hazleton, Pa. on the outskirts of the anthracite region, stands a neat rectangular little dwelling painted sky green and as simple as a candy box. Under its flat roof of rolled steel-&-aluminum are a living room, two bedrooms, kitchen and bath. The cellarless foundation is aero-cement; the frame, steel; the walls, asbestos composition. Six unskilled workmen assembled it in a month. Its total cost, with heat, light and plumbing installed: $3,500. It is a product of American Homes, Inc. of New York which now offers a "line" of four prefabricated models costing...
...tough comedies popularized by Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen; it is not really the same sort of picture. Tod Browning is a director who has always been fascinated by the macabre. John Gilbert, completing with this film an expensive contract which he signed before talkies demolished his box-office value, is determined to make his last cinema characterizations as ugly as his early ones were sleek. The story is about a steel worker (Gilbert) who humiliates a mistress (Mae Clark) whom he really loves because he thinks she is unworthy to marry his best friend (Robert Armstrong). It might have...
Stokowski's numerous radio experiments have been loudly publicized. For a time his chief desire was to hear how his music sounded to outsiders, so he had a soundproof glass box made for himself, stood inside it to conduct, listened to his results through a loudspeaker. Later radio officials decided that he would never be satisfied until he had actually handled the controls. An attempt or two convinced him that the job was too finicky to combine with conducting...
...election year one must discount the omniverous shadow of the ballot box; and in a depression year, one must discount the tragic little concluding sermon on materialism. To the man who was too busy or too lazy to follow the newspapers in 1932, "The American Scene" will appear trenchant and indispensable. The well informed man will find in it perhaps three hours of pleasant reminiscence and then recommend it for the attention of the neighborhood high school teacher of current events...
...Strong which frequently brings Frankau's drawing room tragedy sharply to life. The picture-in which the title rôle is secondary-can therefore be considered a success; its purpose was to provide a glamorous background for an actress whom experts consider Hollywood's most notable box-office find since Joan Crawford. In her first cinema (A Bill of Divorcement, last autumn) Katharine Hepburn came as close as anyone can to stealing a picture from John Barrymore. Before that she had been a stage actress whose principal talent seemed to be for getting and then losing lead...