Word: childishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wondered why his directions for moving scenery in the Transformation Scene were ignored and the Transformation music played before a closed curtain. Director Herbert Witherspoon could have told him: to cinema-bred patrons, Director Witherspoon thought, Herr Wagner's elaborate device to indicate motion would have appeared quite "childish...
...Taurog, with Jackie Cooper and Robert Coogan impersonating the principal characters in Percy Crosby's famed comic strip. Small Coogan's most notable characteristic is a treble voice so high that at times it amounts to" a whistle. Cooper has a thoughtful little face, often pinched by childish melancholy; in addition, he is a superb actor. This picture has the defect of most sequels, in that episodes similar to the ones which seemed spontaneous in Skippy, now appear to be part of a formula. They are still affecting, touched by gently sentimental sympathy for small children and their...
Honeymoon Lane (Paramount) owes its existence almost exclusively to Funnyman Eddie Dowling. He wrote it, played it as a musical comedy for 52 weeks, turned it into a cinema leaving out all the songs except Honeymoon Lane. It is a sentimental but engaging work, at times lively with the childish antics of Ray Dooley (Mrs. Eddie Dowling), at times in the nature of a Dowling soliloquy on the virtues of faith and of cherry pie. It relates the adventures of an enterprising youth who, discharged as croupier in the gambling rooms of a resort hotel, becomes manager of a rival...
...enter their 'teens hand in hand with Louisa May Alcott, leave them arm in arm with G. B. Shaw. A librarian may fix his attention on special cases: prisons, for example. Girls in correctional institutions do not read so much as boys. They are "ignorant and sophisticated, pathetically childish, wary, scornful and suspicious." They should be given stories written for adults of meagre intelligence, especially those of girls who rise above unfortunate surroundings. Some penologists stuff education into prisoners, like meat into a sausage. But knowledge is a power that can be used for evil as well as good...
...Brooklyn, he had stopped going to school when he was 15, sold candy on trains, acted in small time vaudeville, been an agent for Victrola records. There was nothing then to confirm his impression that he was a singer except the fact that his mother, annoyed by his childish caterwaulings, had often given him a nickel to keep quiet. Tammany Politician James Hagan helped him get jobs?the first one singing ten times a day in a burlesque theatre...