Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passing from Broadway to Hollywood, On Your Toes has suffered a see change. Even Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, a high point of the original version, has no more bang than the pop-pistol percussion with which the orchestra burlesques its pantomime killings. Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Leonid Kinskey fling flat gags around with as much nervous energy as if they were hand grenades, but they never go off. Typical duds: "We are waiting for Levsky"; "Aha! mutiny on the ballet...
Though Zorina's lyrical legs wore out four pairs of slippers in a day making On Your Toes, even the superb, deliberate grace with which she dances, regardless, among such sickening verbal thuds cannot completely save a picture that gets on everybody's toes...
People who like their melodrama raw and in big gulps get their fill. Those who would swap a third-rate Hitchcock any night for a first-rate Laughton get an even break...
Last week New York City's pugnacious little Mayor LaGuardia (an Episcopalian) banned the picketing of churches. He wrote his Police Commissioner: "There is no labor dispute involved, and in this country, where freedom of religion is guaranteed, theological differences or even philosophical controversies are not contemplated in the law permitting picketing. . . . There is nothing in the Norris-La-Guardia Act which permits the picketing of God. I ought to know...
...when performing solo, Sturnus vulgaris is one of the most versatile of all bird mimics. It not only imitates the songs of many birds but also reproduces, with uncanny fidelity, the cackle of a laying hen, the tentative chirps of young robins, the plaint of annoyed guinea fowl, even the mew of a kitten or the whistling...