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Given Red Dust's brazen moral values, Gable & Harlow have full play for their curiously similar sort of good-natured toughness. The best lines go to Harlow. She bathes hilariously in a rain barrel, reads Gable a bedtime story about a chipmunk and a rabbit. Her effortless vulgarity, humor and slovenliness make a noteworthy characterization, as good in the genre as the late Jeanne Eagels' Sadie Thompson. Noteworthy too is the fake jungle, a marvel of impenetrability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 17, 1932 | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...have a particular technique which cannot be well duplicated. Crooning is an art, and should be recognized as such. Young America loves to build up an idol, making it far greater than it deserves, and then with equal fickleness tearing it down with all the savagery of an enraged chipmunk. I have known many men who 'croon' who are as fine and good friends as one could wish--Downey, Vallee, Colombo, and others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Not All Tenors Are Crooners", Says Nagel, Who Refuses To Classify These Artists Under One Head--Censorship Cited | 3/10/1932 | See Source »

...Laugh Parade is produced, staged, largely written by and for Ed Wynn. It presents the usual Wynnsome monkeyshines, Comedienne Jeanne Au-bert's thin little voice and chipmunk smile, and Cinemactor Lawrence Gray, behaving like a perfect little Hollywood gentleman. Indeed handsome Mr. Gray affords the only note of restraint to the show. Unconsciously he betrays an apprehension that someone in the cast may take advantage of his being a motion picture actor, start making fun of him. Otherwise The Laugh Parade goes its merry way without benefit of libretto or commonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...negotiable treasure from his bomb-smitten father, the great Chang Tso-lin. Smart Son Chang is an ally whom any Chinese government would give its eye teeth to possess but to the overtures of both Nationalists and Northerners, Smart Son Chang has ever been coy as a chipmunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Tsinan Captured; Chang Still Coy | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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