Word: enjoyability
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasons: 1) most North Carolinians smoke Camels, their State's most famed product, as a matter of pride; 2) they could not recall seeing Senator Reynolds smoke any brand but Camels. Senator Reynolds admitted that he smoked Camels but he assured questioners that he did smoke and enjoy Lucky Strikes on occasion. No other Lucky Strike-endorsing Senator would speak up but that there were more was clearly indicated one night last week when smart, socialite Alice Roosevelt Longworth commercialized herself in Washington over a nation-wide Lucky Strike radio hookup. Mrs. Longworth set a new high of some...
Candidates inevitably find the competition to be basically one of experience, that is, in how to meet and deal with all types of people, how to acquire a practical and business-like outlook, and perhaps most of all, how to really enjoy to the full an activity which is completely voluntary...
There is good entertainment in the two features, but one must sit through several reels of crude comedy, mediocre songs, and half-baked acting before being allowed to enjoy it. The dancing of Johnny Downs and Eleanor Whitney in "College Holiday" is top-notch, as are the anties of electrician Ben Blue. "Sing Me A Love Song" presents James Melton, who really can sing, and Patricia Ellis, who really can't act. But as a kleptomaniac who must have even stolen his name, it being Seigfried Hammerschlagg, Hugh Herbert steals all the good sequences of this picture...
...photographer made himself much too arty. Not content with mere technical perfection, he tried to make a lot of psychological double exposures, which turn out to be what most double exposures are, mistakes. But despite all this censure, it is really quite possible to overlook the flaws and enjoy the picture for its better dialogue and acting...
...Adventures in Manhattan" will please individuals who enjoy predicting the climax of a mystery thriller when the story is only partially unfolded. As a movie which in parts is both uncommonly good and uncommonly bad, it contains enough comedy sequences, to sustain a plot which is highly improbable at best. The new edition of the March of Time suspends the propaganda and presents an interesting portrayal of the Mormen Church and the modern doctors' fight against cancer...