Word: contortionistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their Broadway to get just a touch of it. But it's only a fleeting glimpse. Jack Whiting exhibits his handsome blond profile in putting across, as only he can, a few of the songs from his stage successes. And buxom Mitzi Mayfair twists her rubber legs into unique contortionist poses. The audience, overawed, sits on its hands, saving applause for three burlesque clowns whose antics are antique...
...stage the Met presents the occasionally hilarious Roy Atwell, word contortionist. The Three X Sisters also step from their homes in Radioland to do an entertaining routine...
Metropolitan stage shows are always pleasing to the eye. Their costuming is novel and the scenery full of startling color combinations without being stagey. We only wish they would present some act other than 1. A contortionist. 2. Anapache dance. 3. A bunch of acrobats. We have no grievance against these phenomena of vaudeville, but it does seem that there must be others...
...John Madison (Chester Morris) find an old faith-healer (Hobart Bosworth) practicing his innocent seances in a sea-coast village. They form an adroit plan to exploit his doddering abilities. First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks at heaven. To their dismay, the faith-healer works other and less specious miracles. In the end, instead of absconding with moneys they have collected from his patients, they become converted. They decide...
Must a headmaster be a contortionist, or is "Big Dick" Richards an exception? TIME does not specify, but the description (Aug. 10) is vivid: "Throwing his leg over the arm of his chair and scratching the back of his head...