Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cradle Will Rock reports, with controlled and eloquent class hatred, a steel strike. Mr. Mister is the mill owner. He corrupts a doctor, bulldozes an editor, terrorizes a college president and arranges for the assassination of a labor organizer. Mrs. Mister gives a clergyman his weekly dole and tells him what to say in his sermons. She keeps a painter and a musician on her string. The two sing a song which goes...
...debts through his brilliant ride on a horse who hates the gambler who is trying to buy the sanatorium for use as a casino-it all adds up to nothing at all except superlative entertainment. A gag sequence omitted but photographed for advertising purposes was one in which Horse-Doctor Groucho plied his trade on a horse that fitted perfectly into the Marx family...
...promote interest, sand sculptors took to modeling topical subjects. Roosevelt I long reigned a favorite. Then came Woodrow Wilson, doughboys emerging from trenches, caricatures of the Kaiser, militant suffragets, airplanes, Lindbergh, Mickey Mouse. The more enterprising even reproduced old paintings like The Doctor and Washington Crossing the Delaware. Most subjects were done in bas-relief. Although whispering lovers and mermaids survived all passing fancies, religious figures were ruled out some 17 years ago when a colored life-size Crucifixion (green cross, brown Christ, vivid red thorns and nails) remained intact after a rainstorm and such throngs of the pious came...
Four features are or will be at the University this week. Through Wednesday "Shall We Dance" and "Once A Doctor", with Jean Muir and Donald Woods are showing; on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, "Fifty Roads To Town", with Don Ameche and Ann Sothern, and "Romeo and Juliet", with Norma Shearer and Lesile Howard...
With a topnotcher like "Shall We Dance" it is a pleasant surprise to find the second show "Once A Doctor" also surpassing entertainment. This is due primarily to the absence of hospital dramatics customary in medical films, a new plot, and suitable acting by the lead, Donald Woods, with assistance from Gordon Oliver, as the weakling antagonist, and Joan Muir, for romance...