Word: clever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Orcham through his microcosmic hotel, its daily & nightly functionings. crises; from the subterranean power plant to the eighth luxurious floor. Anything, from a miscarriage to a murder, can happen there; almost everything does. Author Bennett shows how carefully set a stage the hotel guest sees; shows what hard and clever work goes on behind the scenes. After reading Imperial Palace you will see your next hotel dining room, grill room, lobby with a fresh...
...prurient prudishness and primitive purity. Yvette is the younger of two daughters of an English parson. Her mother had run away with another man, is no longer mentioned. Yvette's grandmother has taken her daughter-in-law's place in the household. "She was one of those physically vulgar, clever old bodies who had got her own way all her life by buttering the weaknesses of her men-folk." Yvette hates her grandmother, is discontented with her parochial life, the parochial young men who court her. One day she happens on a gypsy camp, meets a gypsy who is different...
...centre of much Gallic plotting when he inherits a million francs. One song, "It's a Great Life If You Don't Weaken" has a chance of being a hit. For the rest, Playboy of Paris is notable chiefly for the expert clowning of Stuart Erwin and some clever detail, such as Waiter Chevalier's constant desire to wear his dress-up, braided waiter's coat instead of his everyday one?an impulse contested by his employer because of the cost of dry-cleaning. Best shot: a duel, in which the chef and bus boy of the cafe...
Today, at 12 o'clock in Sever 11, Professor Matthiesson, in his own sure and sometimes clever fashion, will discuss Francis Bacon. The Vagabond shadders to think that somewhere in the feature the words. "the wisest brightest, meanest of mankind," may possibly appear. This seems to introduce Alexander Pope about whom Professor Greenough will talk today at 2 o'clock, also in Sever...
...greater success . It would have been a greater success had Vinsent Youmans provided a better score for the music in this production is woe fully weak. There are one or two pleasant exceptions to the musical mediocrity for instance "Be Good to Me" and the lyrics are really clever. The latter some by Ring Lardner, some by Clifford Grey and Havold Adamson the last of whom wrote the lyrics for the Hasty Pudding Show last spring are consistently good...