Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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MURDER AT CAMBRIDGE-Q. Patrick- Farrar & Rinehart ($2). A blithe young American traces family lines, helps the constabulary catch a clever killer...
CELEBRATED CASES OF CHARLIE CHAN -Earl Derr Biggers-Bobbs-Merrill ($2). The clever Chinese rides this omnibus through Cases One to Five...
...second picture, "Second Hand Wife," deals with a trite subject, but is raised from the depths of mediocrity by clever work on the part of the leading characters, Sally Eilers, Ralph Bellamy, and Helen Vinson. Karol Kay, as Patsy, provides more evidence to support the prevalent theory that all juvenile stars are unbearable, but she is kept in the background enough to conceal this fact from all but the most observing of the audience...
Varying the action with musical interludes ranging from "Frankie and Johnnie" to "Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage," a clever cast mocks the dramatic genre of two generations ago in a superbly entertaining gem of burlesque. The play contains all the legendary characters of the old-time thriller, from the farmer's daughter to the Bowery tough, and all the legendary lines from the villain's "Curses! Foiled again!" to the heroine's "Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine." Francis G. Cleveland, Wesley Boynton, Edward Massey, and Sally Fitzpatrick, perfectly attuned to their parts, carry the play...
Although successful in throwing R. H. I. Goddard 1GB in an affair he had all his won way, the clever Princetonian was defeated in the next division by D. G. Wright '34, an ex-Lehigh matman, in the feature match of the afternoon. Both men displayed a large number of holds, with first the one and then the other on top, but Wright piled up a time advantage of six minutes and seven seconds after ten minutes or rough and tumble fighting. In the 155-pound class, S. T. Clarke 1M, a former Stanford mat star, easily threw Hayden Estey...