Word: brendel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would do it in the crate of one of Mr. Farrell's polo ponies, you know that Heather will presently get into the U. S., eventually nod her head when Mr. Farrell asks her a certain question. A mediocre score by George Gershwin and the Swedish comicalities of El Brendel are adjuncts of Delicious. Like other Gaynor-Farrell romances, the picture also has an element which is almost impossible to explain?an element of spontaneity and charm. Typical shot: Heather having fun with a musical bottle which tinkles when she lifts it. Janet Gaynor's first noticeable role...
...concealed weapons and even the balconies resembled shooting galleries. In the cinema, obviously, no such presentation of The Spider was possible but it remains an exciting, gruesome and momentarily plausible dilemma, unfit for the hysterically inclined. In the cast, Edmund Lowe is the magician, Lois Moran the heroine, El Brendel a simple-minded spectator who provides comic relief by stealing a hat, asking stupid questions in a thick Swedish accent...
...Queen Victoria did not say, we were amused, very much amused, at the University Theatre last night when we strolled in to see Ed Brendel play "Mr. Lemon of Orange". There was every reason why we should have been. If Edward Cantor, Esquire, designs the dialogue things are fated to happen to one's abdominal district, whence the human laugh is said to find its being. And when a Swede speaks English, even though it is really an American making an entirely successful attempt to speak Anglo-Swedish, one rejoices unrestrained...
...both quite thoroughly. For the rest, the producer hired a lot of gentlemen with broken noses and created another gang-land picture. Mr. Lemon was a very simple Swede. Mr. McGee was a very complicated and very hard thug, whose cigars were of the definite variety. Both were Mr. Brendel. Both became involved with Miss Dorsay, calling her "Mees Yulee", or "that skoit" antiphonally. Both finally came to blows, and Mr. Brendel wrestled with himself all over the front lawn, threatened himself with a fake revover, and sent himself off to justice, leaving himself to enjoy Fill's company undistrubed...
...Brendel, as a member of our own generation, is brought to life in a medical experiment. In his own peculiar dialogue he wanders through reels of wise cracks and sly digs at the Prohibition amendment. His supporting cast is pretty rank with the possible exception of Maureen O'Sullivan. She seems to have forgotten the mannerisms of speech that are current on the "auld sod", and has acquired in their stead a conventional vocabulary that smacks of Hollywood. The only reason for learning the name of the man who played opposite her is to forestall future attendance at movies...