Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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China Seas, the tropical thriller now playing at the University, opens with a shot of Captain Clark Gable reeling home to his ship (the pride of the line) after a three day drunk in Hong Kong. Waiting for him on board are Jean Harlow, looking alluring as ever, Mr. Robert Benchley, drunk again, and Rosalind Russell, who has travelled fifteen thousand miles to reclaim her bibulous sea-captain...
...over the senate; the lecturers and demonstrators; and the proctors. These lost are three in number, and they patrol the streets in turn, night by night, dressed in cap, gown, and white tie, and accompanied by the bull-dogs-sturdy college porters in top hats. They look out for drunk or gownless undergraduates, visit prescribed haunts, and take the names of law-breakers. The proctor's first question is: "Are you a member of this University, sir?" Should an undergraduate hope to escape by answering no, and should he be subsequently discovered, he is told that what he said becomes...
...Japanese Government applied pressure which forced Generalissimo Chiang to oblige Mr. Wang to get well overnight and carry on as Premier. "Japan Is Fully Prepared." Premier Wang and his Cabinet play their roles as a coop full of apparently chicken- hearted Chinese statesmen who have actually served champagne and drunk complimentary toasts with the Japanese Ambassador while Chinese troops were being mowed down by Japanese machine guns in North China (TIME, June 24). To their credit the Chinese Government have the magnificent negative achievement that they have not yet been forced to extend official diplomatic recognition to the puppet Empire...
...gusto, each trooper made parallel cuts with his knife in an animal's flanks, seized the end of the strip of flesh between his teeth, pulled with a blood-gushing rip, chewed hard. As usual, the climax of the Guebbeur came a little later when the Imperial Guard grew drunk on the hot blood and cups of potent native mead. Though obliged to attend the Guebbeur, the King of Kings consumed a minimum of savage viands, took no part in the hours of tipsy and obscene boasting about what Ethiopian soldiers are going to do to Italians...
...frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not actually offensive is due to the skill of Joel Sayre and John Twist who adapted it for the screen. Good shot: Barton's skit of a drunk trying to read a newspaper which ends when he has rolled it helplessly into a soggy ball...