Word: custards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leggy Jessie Matthews used to sing and high kick reel after reel. In Climbing High she sings little, dances less, takes on her unobtrusive chin a custard pie and a messier plot. Britain reports that Jessie intends quitting cinema for good, sticking to the musicomedy stage...
...hordes of gay, limbsome "aquafemmes" prance and promenade. Afloat Swimmers Eleanor Holm and Johnny Weissmuller do a kind of aquatic waltz to music while "aquabelles" and "aquabeaux" weave patterned water ballets. A water tumbler (whom Billy Rose forgot to call an aquabat) gets laughs from the water, while four custard-pie pantomimists get laughs on land. The revue finally explodes into a patriotissimic finale, featuring a supercolossal U. S. flag...
...disgusted with the custard softness of the Pulitzer awards for drama, Manhattan's play critics decided to make an annual award of their own. In the next three years they chose, as best U. S. play of the year, Maxwell Anderson's Winterset, Maxwell Anderson's High Tor, John Steinbeck's Of Mice...
...camps they have been getting a cup of tea and a biscuit before getting up; a breakfast of porridge, hot milk, liver and onion sauce, bread, butter and marmalade; a morning collation of an apple and milk; a lunch of meat pie, cabbage, mashed potatoes, soup, figs and custard; a good big high tea and a dinner of fish and chips, tea, bread and milk. Result: 1,400 have passed the Army tests. Another, unwanted, result: Laborites are asking why undernourished women and children cannot also be fed back to health...
Decision to transform Gable from a menace to a mountebank was characteristic of Capra. The formative period of his artistic career was spent teaching Mack Sennett actors to put curves on their custard pies. Regarding himself as an average cinemaddict, he feels sure that anything he enjoys will be enjoyed also by 10,000,000 other people. Old line directors, before talkies cramped their style, liked to stamp and bellow at their actors, strut and show off on the set. Like most of his contemporaries, Capra works without mannerisms, confers quietly with his actors and technical crew before each take...