Word: catting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Ever since the French Line launched its superliner Normandie (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932), the French Government which chipped in a heavy subsidy has been nervous as a cat lest Britain's No. 534 be altered in construction to make her the bigger ship. In Paris suspicion was still keen last week, but in Government circles it was said that French engineers recently managed to measure No. 534 in famed John Brown's shipyard on the Clyde. Their report: No. 534 is 1,018 ft. long, or 9 ft. shorter than the Normandie which Paris papers called last week "not only...
...Cat's Paw (Harold Lloyd) is the first picture manufactured by its star since 1932. Unlike its predecessors, it contains no nerve-wracking escapes from railroad trains, no breathless danglings from skyscraper ledges. It is "straight" comedy about the son of a Chinese missionary and the difficulties he encounters when he returns to his hometown to find himself a wife...
...delay that followed Harold Lloyd's last picture Movie Crazy (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932) was partly due to the fact that he could find no suitable story. He bought The Cat's Paw when Author Clarence Budington Kelland had finished only the first chapter, offered suggestions to make the part more to his taste. When the story was finished Producer Lloyd was amazed to find that none of the antics which his private staff of "gagmen" usually arrange for him seemed to fit the plot. He finally accepted the advice of his director, Sam Taylor, to make...
...brother is an associate professor of Latin & Greek at Yale. Her father was a newspaper reporter. When abroad, Erin O'Brien-Moore contemplated visiting his birthplace in Ireland, tossed a coin, went to Paris with friends instead. She owns no pets except a ten-year-old alley cat, dislikes all sports except swimming, admires Al Smith. She cried with dismay when she saw her cinema tests. Her next picture will be Dangerous Corner...
...Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, Scot Willis McPhee left his house bright & early one morning bent on swapping his rusty 40.40 rifle for what he could get. Dark & late that night Scot Willis McPhee returned with a Mauser rifle, an eight-day clock, a pair of rubber boots, a yellow cat, a goat great with...