Word: fixit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began starring in silent films, most of them box-office duds. After sound came, Horton began to win a movie public as a fuddy-duddy Mr. Fixit. In the high-grossing Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire pictures, he became one of the screen's best-known comedians. Of late years he has operated as a "scavenger," making pictures "whenever they have a bad part they think I can rewrite. I twist the lines up, and they turn on the camera-of course, they may not have any film in it, but they pay me." Last year, the movies and radio...
...bright moments, the play catches the addled essence of adolescence; but it keeps encoring each good bit until it turns into a bore. Worse still, A Young Man's Fancy combines a trite comedy plot with a cheap comedy trick. The little rich boy decides to play Master Fixit in a counselors' sagging romance - and pinches a textbook on sex. Thereafter, out of the mouth of babes comes a good deal for a certain kind of grownup to guffaw...
...Citizen Fixit. In Teaneck, N.J., John Daddy, 50 and suspicious, watched a man open an automobile door and take out a package, expostulated, got no explanation, promptly fractured his jaw. In police court. Daddy learned that the man was Cornelius Graham, the car's owner...
Donald Nelson, now Chungking's Mr. Fixit, last week submitted the latest of many recent reports on China (TIME, Jan. 1 et seq.). Salient excerpts from the Nelson* report to President Roosevelt...
...mean the loss of his U.S. citizenship, a quarrel develops. President Roosevelt is treated with Warners' usual restraint; only his shoulder appears in the picture. But Fala (played by a standin) carries notes, and at length his invisible master stoops from the height of history to play Mr. Fixit to the romance...