Word: cat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unabashed by the general solemnity of the occasion, the cat walked up to the altar, brushed against the leg of the Rector, the Reverend Endicott Peabody, and scampered back down the aisle...
...brain upon which my experiences have been written is not a particularly good one. If there were brain-shows, as there are cat and dog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize." In spite of this frankness ? which some readers may mistake for modesty ? Author Herbert George Wells will continue to be taken at his face value as one of the First Citizens of the (nonexistent) World State. Autobiographer Wells denies that he is a dual personality but admits having a persona, an idea of himself somewhat at variance with the humdrum facts...
...there are two other actors gracing the asbestos panel that more than make up for the not-too-beautiful cigarette girl. The first of these redeeming personalities is an old timer, just about as old as they come in point of service, none other than Harold Lloyd in "The Cat's Paw," a production adapted from a tale by Robert Louis Stevenson's modern counterpart in honesty, Clarence Buddington Kelland. The other propitiatory offering is a newcomer to the screen, but one on whom the Playgoer would bet his last and bottom dollar. She is Helen Trenholme, appearing with Warren...
...except Freshmen know Harold Lloyd by heart. Some members of the Class of 1938 might even remember one of his productions. It is sufficient to say that he is unchanged, and those who enjoy a bolly-laugh at slapstick and rather primitive humor will not be disappointed in "The Cat...
...which, with her childish body, her attractively homely face, gives her performances a peculiarly effective quality. For Little Friend her clothes were designed by Schiaparelli. She goes to a private school at Wimbledon, speaks French and German, sews frocks, knits scarves, cooks Swiss rolls, owns a black and white cat, an ivory mouse, a goldfish and a coin with the Lord's prayer engraved on it. Ending a month's visit to the U. S. she last week sailed for England where she will make two pictures a year for the next two years...