Word: familiarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leslie is neither the familiar "laudator temporis acti" not the unheeded prophet wailing in the wilderness, He does not come to censure or to praise. His general purpose is not historical, of course, for that adjective would be too dignified for one man's impressions of the times in which he lives...
...companion piece, "Kansas City Princess" is indeed a familiar film. somehow we feel sure that we have seen all this before...
...adopted by press conventions, City Editor Walker has little patience. "Newspaper men's codes are under their hats, not in the rule books. There are two commandments: do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade." On female reporters, Stanley Walker is eloquent. He recites the familiar blanket indictments, "some outrageously prejudiced and others based on sad experience": "They are slovenly in their habits of mind. . . . They won't look up names and facts. The observant editor feels that if they were housewives, the dishes would still be in the sink. They are impolite, screaming...
...Prescott were Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Harold Bell Wright, Russell Boardman, Earl Sande. Will Rogers reached the Ziegfeld Follies and Hollywood by way of the rodeo. Wandering about Times Square last week, wearing broad-brimmed Stetsons and high heels, were half a dozen rodeo performers whose names are as familiar to rodeo enthusiasts as the names of Babe Ruth, Mickey Cochrane and Dizzy Dean to sports-page readers in the East...
...either in fiction or on the stage. Merrily We Roll Along rolls along considerably less merrily after the end of the second act when it has become completely apparent that the tragedy which Authors Kaufman and Hart are unveiling with such deliberate irony is the old and familiar one of an artist turned successful hack. Superbly staged by Kenneth MacKenna's brother, Jo Mielziner; superbly acted by the biggest cast seen in a legitimate Broadway production this season, Merrily We Roll Along is an amusing and affecting study of interesting peewees, ornamented brightly by cartoons of genuine saloon celebrities...