Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ladies of the Big House (Paramount). Almost every program picture contains at least one new idea. In this one the idea is a jail break by women, executed in rough & ready fashion. One prisoner secretes a pair of wire clippers under her pillow. The heroine (Sylvia Sidney) helps her snip at a fence which separates the prison yard from a bay. The jailbreak fails, but since Sylvia Sidney is unjustly imprisoned she gets out before the picture ends. The plot framework which surrounds the prison scenes is diverting and well constructed, but basically improbable. It has to do with...
...Mozart program. "My son," announced the teacher of prodigies ahead of time, "is no prodigy." Rolf, a grave, curly-haired child, would like some-time to be a concert artist like his father's pupils, Ruggiero Ricci and Yehudi Menuhin. But he plays now in a sturdy, forthright fashion more illustrative of expert teaching than of inspiration...
Headlined the Cincinnati Enquire. characteristic fashion...
...comparatively few who remain permanently paralyzed he recommended orthopedic surgery. A skilled surgeon can often correct sound muscles in such fashion that a wobbly joint becomes stiff and the limb useful. Often he can get some controlled motion back into a limb. Many a rehabilitated person moves his jaw with a muscle from his neck...
...aroused when the American Federation of Musicians refused her admittance on the grounds that the ukulele is not a musical instrument. The Federation, it seemed, had never even been asked to recognize it before. Yet the ukulele does not have to be played in a hit-or-miss fashion just because it is smaller and cheaper than its cousin, the union-approved guitar. Unlike the harmonica, lowliest of wind instruments, the ukulele has all the chromatics, can be played...