Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore, stay home if you can. Get a job as an ordinary shop-hand, as a store clerk, or sell something if you think you can. Tutoring or serving as companion is remunerative work when it is available. So much for the money saver...
...trouble putting heart into it, since in real life Frances Dee is Mrs. Joel McCrea. In general Wells Fargo is ably cast, and the production & settings are convincingly accurate. Most plausible period scene: gangling Bob Burns, as an ingratiating Leatherstocking of the plains, conversing endlessly with his laconic Indian companion, Pawnee, whose total vocabulary...
...Companion films are "Damsel In Distress," a P. G. Wodehouse offering, and "Spy Ring." The first stars Fred Astaire and the silly pair, George Burns and Gracie Allen. Astaire is as debonair as ever and his dancing clover. The picture ranks as first rate entertainment if you don't mind the silly...
...companion feature is entitled "Dear Miss Aldrich," and, strangely enough, it succeeds in being almost funny at times. Edna May Oliver stretches her face to unprecedented longitudinal dimensions, Maureen O'Sullivan glides along in a manner that is just too, too demure, and the audience seemed to enjoy themselves in a mild way. "Dear Miss Aldrich" tells the tale of a girl's fight for recognition in a newspaper man's world; it is not recommended for consumption, unless the reader is feeling in a particularly receptive mood
...Philadelphia in 1827, went to a Quaker school and Haverford College, was apprenticed to a dry-goods merchant, later to a mapmaker. Finding his "worldly spirit" in collision with the piety of his father, he struck out on his own, worked as a farmhand, then started west with a companion, bumming rides on primitive trains, stealing poultry, taking up with a drunken canal boatman...