Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There should be a trumpet to blow when a picture like "Give Me Your Heart" comes to the University. It has already converted one Kay Francis hater, and she is still the weakest member of the cast. Of course the triangle has some clever new angles, but the dialogue and minor situations are what really give the actors their chance. Precious feet of film are given to good conversation, and the audience has a chance to enjoy the picture instead of having to follow a bewildering series of action shots...
Supper in the Sanctum. More very good friends. Pump hands, throw arms around shoulders talk loud and fast. Everyone extremely amiable, everyone extremely clever, exceptional company. Exceptional company indeed. Out, and on to town, Jostling In the subway, singing, other noise, numbers of people carrying sunflowers wearing western sambreros. A regular Harvard cheer for Roosevelt...
...children. Irrevocably lost among the three of them with their love affairs of which only one is successful, the audience completely gives up the ghost and settles back to enjoy the really outstanding performance of Alan Mowbray, who has found his forte in the field of comedy. As a clever magician suffering from the horrible disease of "polydigitalis" he offers a welcome relief from the plot...
...more fevered appearance. Buttons of various sizes and hues appear. Meetings of political groups, assemblies, debates, all fill the air with their cries and cheers. Everywhere can be heard political discussion, opinion, creed, code or cant. Statistics; proving either of two sides, are called into play by the clever. Rumor and scandal, easy to remember and difficult to refute, are used by the unscrupulous. The whole college is caught up in the maelstrom of political interest and factional discussion. Harvard has awakened to the fact that there is a presidential election on November third, and November third is only five...
Regarding this communication as by far the most interesting and intelligent of the 5,000-odd which the beauty series evoked from readers. Editor Desmond Hall at first suspected it might be a clever trap set by a rival magazine. Contributing Editor Helen Josephy, in charge of the beauty articles, invited Nurse Phillips to Mademoiselle's, Manhattan office. Convinced of the young lady's good faith, the editors decided to take a sporting chance and see what could be done about her personal appearance in one week's time. Thus was launched a heroic course of beauty...