Word: companions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...companion picture, "The Hory Terror" is a foolish little comedy staring Jane Withers--that pudgy young she-devil. If it does nothing else, it explains Freddie Bartholomew's preference for Shirley Temple...
...isolated advisers who feel obligated to do more than sign study cards twice a year. An adviser should be qualified, of course, to give his advises some confidence that they are not playing blind man's buff with courses; beyond this he is, ideally, supposed to be guide, companion, expert in untangling personal, domestic, social knots in the Freshman's makeup. He is, in a word, supposed to be master of the study of the transition between school and college...
...nothing but mask and muff. The muff is recognized by everyone as the one won at the masquerade by the doctor's brother's fiancee. To shield the two women, Heideneck invents a third, one Leopoldine Dur. There happens to be a real Leopoldine Dur (Paula Wessely), companion to an antique countess. The resulting farce is played with such subtle humor and skill that spectators are scarcely disturbed by the fact that all dialog is in German, necessitating brief English footnotes...
...companion picture, "Man of Affairs", is a better than average English comedy which depends entirely upon the suave acting of George Arliss to pull it through. Despite the hammy aroma clinging to the supporting cast, Mr. Arliss turns in one of his best performances in light comedy to date. The two juveniles who play at young love are typically English, laboring under the national delusion that the best way to put your lines across is to talk as rapidly and unintelligibly as possible. Arliss admirers will enjoy this picture notwithstanding...
Close on the pattering heels of advices from Hollywood that Freddie Bartholomew, precious duckling of the silver screen, may apply for admission to the college came ugly rumors yesterday that Shirley Temple, his constant rhumba companion at California hot-spots, may enter Radcliffe, an institution on Garden street...