Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Solomon of Broadway" is, if possible, worse than its companion feature. The plot is equally primerish, and unrelieved by shots of the naval academy. There are various gangsters and a gambling joint, a millionaires dance-contest winner who is kidnapped, and a pure young secretary-singer who marries her boss. Edmund Lowe is the star, but the picture would have been equally bad without...
...citadel above Lake Waban placed in the driveway a statue in cold, gray stone, a statue of the Madonna. As he drove up the hill the Crimson editor took notice of the homing Wellesley students ambling along beside his car. Nearing the top, he turned to his companion and, never expecting the half-surprised and half-indignant answer he was to get from outside, said, "Where shall I park, next to the Virgin?" "Who, me?" were the words of reply...
...variance with the lyric distributed aboard the Charlie White, Tammany definitely did not turn out to greet prodigal Mr. Walker. "Fighting Al" Smith had other business. Onetime Official Greeter Grover Whalen, a decorative member of the old Walker entourage, and little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, Walker's Broadway companion, discreetly left town before his ship reached Quarantine. But the Master Brewers' Association, grateful for Walker's fantastic Beer Parade of 1932. was at the dock 2,000 strong. The Grand Street Boys and other sodalities with nothing to lose by consorting with the ex-Mayor had hired...
...only human importantly concerned in the picture is a 14-year-old boy (V. Konstantinov) who falls asleep at a picnic where a companion has been reading aloud from Gulliver's Travels. Dreaming, he thinks he is Dr. Petya Gulliver, sees himself cast up, after mutiny and shipwreck, on the desolate coast of Lilliputia. The tiny citizens bind his arms and feet with threads. The fierce police chief arrives in a nutshell armored car. The fire department of Lilliputia runs a hose into his mouth. An army of tanks hitched to a gigantic platform haul him to the capital...
Cast in the leading role of Remi Barbarin, the young Robert Lyneu gives only a mildly convincing performance. Chief honors in our opinion, are due to Vitalis, Remi's chief benefactor, and to Mattia, his companion in misfortune, who lends considerable colour and interest to the later part of the story...