Word: fashionables
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...justly apply. These references have to do with your editorial of February thirteenth, in which, under the nom de plume Nemo, and with freedom of expression that is startlingly unique, you crack open the nut of smug, self-conceit, and expose the "Kernel" (Charles A. Lindbergh) in most commendable fashion...
Husbands desert their wives for lighter frays, liquors saturate the veins of these hardy Americans, and they occasionally gather to talk over business in a disorderly fashion. The president is a smug person who speaks of his respect for morals and is later discovered by one of his employees leaving the house of a certain madame who is a flea exterminator; the employee is immediately remunerated by receiving a much higher position in the company.... Sinclair Lewis might have written a similar story ten years ago; the satire is always obvious and amusing. There are several plots, all rather involved...
Will Rogers in "Mr. Skitch, is, as usual, more of a toastmaster than an actor. He noseys around in his usual aimless fashion, scratches the back of his head and exhibits that sheepish Rogers smile. There is no doubt that as the writer of the Washington letter and the originator of a radio football game in which world celebrities take part he is a talented and versatile man. As such it is interesting to watch him parade his personality in "Mr. Skitch." Despite a few comedy situations and the presence of Zasu Pitts and Eugene Pallette, the film fails...
Beginning March 2, and running for one week, the Metropolitan offers "Mandalay" with Ricardo Cortez, Lyle Talbot, and Kay Francis. On the stage is the Scott Furrier fashion show and Will Mahoney of the "Vanities". The story, which is laid in Rangoorf forms a romantic setting for the striking beauty of Miss Francis...
...Only the nobility were buried in this fashion. It is as if we were to bury a prosperous business man with his wife, his servants, the family jewels and silverware, and then toss in a liberal quantity of groceries for use in the after-world. But instead of coffins, these people buried their dead in great stone slabs...