Word: doll
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these are real works of art in a twentieth-century medium. "Gulliver Mickey", for example, has happily seized upon the delight of miniatures, of 100 doll-house bric-a-brac, latent in the "Travels", and given them a separate existence, the satire being discarded. Disney has come a long way from the days when visual puns were the heart of an animated cartoon. You remember: Felix the Cat used to have trouble entering fourth-story windows, only to sprout columns of huge question marks out of his head and use them as the necessary ladder. Insead of this...
Four Harvard men will participate in the Wellesley Barnswallows Association's production of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" at Alumnae Hall on Friday and Saturday, December 6 and 7 at eight o'clock...
Tryouts for the Wellasley College Baruswallows' Fall production. Ibsen's "The Doll House", will get underway tonight and tomorrow under the critical eyes of Whitney Cook 36 President of the HDC. and his afiles. They will choose from the acceptable actors of the University, the male cast for the play which is to take place December 6 and 7. The tryouts, open to all members of the college will take place FUN from 7:30 till 9:00 both evenings...
...China Doll (Jean Harlow), in defiance of the Legion of Decency, has apparently been the mistress of Captain Gaskell (Clark Gable) for six years. James MacArdle (Wallace Beery) is not a tycoon but a greasy, coastwise racketeer, aware that the Kin Lung carries a fat cargo of gold. McCaleb, the drunken novelist (Robert Benchley), insults his fellow passengers by misunderstanding them completely. High point of the story arrives when, having weathered a typhoon, the Kin Lung is attacked by Malay pirates who are in league with Racketeer MacArdle...
...time the pirates reach her the Kin Lung is wallowing in a ferment of plots, counterplots, scandals and frustrations. Captain Gaskell has broken with China Doll to become engaged to Sybil (Rosalind Russell). China Doll, chagrined, has stolen his key to the ship's armory, given it to MacArdle. The owner of the line (C. Aubrey Smith) has delivered a short talk on the lure of the Orient. During the typhoon a lashed steamroller has rolled loose on deck, crushing coolies until, owing to the cowardice of his third officer (Lewis Stone), Captain Gaskell is forced to rechain...