Word: cutaways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mama Loves Papa (Paramount). A timid little clerk (Charles Ruggles) who loves making puns like "sanctuary much" which his fat wife (Mary Boland) fails to appreciate, appears at his office one morning dressed in a cutaway coat. This is because his wife has been lecturing him on the advantages of fine feathers; his employer takes it for granted that he has a funeral to go to, gives him the day off. The clerk goes for a stroll in the park, gets mistaken for the playground commissioner, then accidentally gets the job. He keeps it until he finds out that...
Once supposed to ride in a limousine with bullet-proof glass because he feared assassination, Benito Mussolini has recently taken to riding a motorcycle, setting informal fashions in dress. Though he sometimes still wears a top hat and cutaway. // Duce decided last week that in the case of lesser Fascist officials even occasional display of such formal clothes should be discouraged. In Rome the Fascist party's Spartan Secretary General, Signer Achille Starace, sent out to all Fascist officials last week the following six-point general guide to official behavior...
...sunbeams, and the Vagabond dances behind a screen as he dons his trousers. Water tinkles against the sides of the basin as he sluices his gnarled face in the limpid pool. He dashes through the room, adding touch after touch to his creation of sartorial ineffability. His cutaway in place, he adds a final caressing stroke to his ascot, bathes its center in the refulgent aura of a heavy gold pin, and descends the innumerable stairs...
Herbert Hoover stuck a long black cigar between his teeth, nipped out the tails of his cutaway and sat firmly down at the black oval table in the centre of the President's room just off the Senate lobby. He was still President of the U..S. with work to do. An enormous wall mirror reflected the drawn tired lines in his face as he hunched over a stack of bills laid before him. William McKinley (in bronze) glowered out of a corner. Down through the heavy tracery of a chandelier "The Eye of God'' painted...
Topaze (RKO). Professor Auguste Topaze (John Barrymore) at the beginning of this picture, is a shabby and bedazzled pedagog, soberly extolling to the urchins in his classroom the virtues of a copy book philosophy. At the end of the picture he is a gay boulevardier. dressed in a depraved cutaway and accompanied by a mistress (Myrna Loy) whom he has stolen from a baron. The transformation starts when Topaze loses his job for punishing the baron's stupid son. It is completed when the baron (Reginald Mason) has made Topaze head of a fraudulent mineral water company...