Word: brianing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resembles Forty-Second Street and Gold Diggers of 1933 in plot, pattern and environment; that it has the same type of dances, staged by Bobby Connolly, and the same type of songs ("Dusty Shoes'" for a finale instead of ''Forgotten Men"); or that its ingenue, Mary Brian, not only looks like Ruby Keeler but has obviously been coached to. speak in the same soft monotone. The surprising aspect of Moonlight and Pretzels is that it makes plausible Hollywood's profound conviction that repetition is the secret of success. It copies Warner Brothers' two hits even...
...sense knocked into her, she chirrups: "I don't care if I never read another poem again-so long as my stomach's full. Love is not a potato. You can't eat it." An unpoetical but potato-providing suitor is close at hand. Dr. Stevens (Brian Donlevy), family friend and star boarder...
...MEMOIRS OF SATAN-William Gerhardi & Brian Dunn-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). History through humorously satanic eyes...
...racer and sneak-thief, all with perfect Brooklyn-Irish sangfroid. In Hard to Handle he is a flip, beady-eyed, irresponsible publicist, as unlike Ivy Lee, to whom he compares himself, as possible. When he promotes a marathon dance he falls in love with one of the contestants (Mary Brian) and has to run away from her mother (Ruth Donnelly) when his partner steals the prize money. Disaster, as usual, encourages Cagney. He promotes a treasure hunt on an amusement pier, scuttles off with his fee while the hunters pull the pier apart...
Resigned, John Lord O'Brian, onetime Buffalo law partner of William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan; as Assistant to the Attorney General in charge of anti-trust cases; in Washington...