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Despite the widest spread advance interest since "The Tempest," and despite the return of Robert E. Sherwood and Spencer Tracy after five and 15 year absences respectively. "The Rugged Path" somehow contrives to bring together every known cliche and outworn situation known to the American stage.
His eyes moisten visibly when the men cheer his public appearances; he cannot make a smooth, cliche-packed speech of thanks, but is more likely to blurt (as he did after the first hit-run raids): "I've never been so damn proud of anybody as I am of...
The Merry Monahans (Universal), a jigsaw of nostalgic cliche, sometimes mildly pleasing, never downright unpleasant, involves vaudevillians Jack Oakie, Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan in one more exhumation of variety's vanished glories. Chief problem in this one: keeping Paterfamilias Oakie, a sterling performer when sober, away...
This sentence, a well-worn cliche to economists and oilmen, is still news to millions of Americans who think first of their thousands of airplanes, their Army and Navy, their two great oceans, their enormous productive capacity. Harry Truman, Senator from Missouri, used the words as the basic premise of...
¶Theda Bara was a friendly Cincinnati girl named Theodosia Goodman, who became cinema's first femme fatale. Her catch line: "It is very hot in Africa" became a cliche almost as famous in its day as Mae West's "Come up and see me sometime."