Word: enjoyability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Constance Cummings, a handsome, vigorous young woman, seems to enjoy the male impersonation, slapstick, and rough-house required for her. But since there is little room for anything else, this play can scarcely make or break her as a straightforward actress. For her sake it is to be hoped that "If I Were You" does not prove too successful. Not to mention a free-for-all including her, her wife, and the Irish maid, she is forced to kneel on the floor with the man lying on top of her, back to back and beat on the floor with...
...necessarily follows that, though they may like to be threatened or thrilled, they do not like to be scared; that, though they may enjoy a seasoning of horror they must not be appalled or disgusted; that, though they may play with ideas, they will not wrestle with them. Satire flourishes in the slicks, but it is satire of manners. Few themes or subjects are tabooed but every subject must be treated in such a way that basic fears, disgusts, and prejudices are not roused. The 'unhappy ending,' the sole criterion of art when the Dial still lived...
...bare feet. At Harrison, a mile from the hospital, a night watchman gave him a pair of rubbers and a suit of overalls. Joe trudged stolidly on to Newark, found his friend. He still felt all right, so he decided to stay around for a while and enjoy himself. Meanwhile, police were searching the swamp for Joe's body...
...after the first laugh Leslie Howard seems a bit silly to say, when a knock on the door finds him in the arms of his stage partner, "Your husband." Perhaps you are the kind who can overlook the bad and remember only the good; then, you will long enjoy such lines as the one by Mr. Howard kissing the lovely Olivia de Havilland, who at the same moment espies her rival Miss Davis looking on with great interest...
Kendall is just as fast as he's reputed to be, and will enjoy himself during the next three years taking cracks at some of the records hung up by Hutter...