Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Small, lackadaisical Roland Young emigrated from London 20 years ago. achieved his greatest stage success in Rollo's Wild Oat, a play written by his mother-in-law, Clare Kummer. In the cinema, Young is usually a chipper menace, a sleek eccentric drunkard, or a patrician foil for some more homespun leading man. In private life, he is a collector of penguins in books, pictures and statuary, which he maintains in the penguin room of his Hollywood home. Of penguins he says: "I like them because they are different. ... I am going to spend lots of time studying penguins...
This conclusion serves the purposes of law & order. It is not in keeping with the rest of the picture, which is a chipper, hardboiled, amusing essay on petty thievery. In his first starring performance, James Cagney has a role in which he is more mischievous than wicked. He makes rascality seem both easy and attractive as he did in The Public Enemy and Smart Money, two previous works by Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright who wrote Blonde Crazy. Good shot: Cagney casting hungry glances at the female patrons of a nightclub...
...funniest sketch in The Third Little Show is enacted in a Paris dive whither Miss Lillie, a visiting Englishwoman, and a spinsterish companion have repaired for a cup of tea. In spite of murder and rapine which takes place under her nose, Miss Lillie doggedly finishes her repast, incredibly chipper even when a corpse is draped over her shoulders. She also obliges with that old favorite: "There are Fairies at the Bottom of My Garden...
...gloriously pictured in sporting fiction, is enacted so badly in most real sport events. Graber, a dark, handsome, nonchalant youth, clung to a bamboo pole painted green at the bottom, slightly longer and more springy than two others which he had brought with him from the Coast. A chipper young fellow, he had brought also a small red camera with which he expected his teammate Pete Chlentzos to take his picture when he set a new record. Chlentzos stood behind him now, patting the lower part of his back, repeating for the nth time the instructions about run, takeoff...
...beautiful, her name euphonious Isabelle, Princess of Orleans-Braganza, descendant of the Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil. For this tall, dark-eyed graceful girl the Royalist ladies of Lyons, France, had embroidered with silver palm leaves a gown of shimmering satin designed by Jean Charles Worth, most chipper of Parisian grands couturiers, who hops about and chirps...