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...humble impression gleaned from a thoroughly unenlightened hour in the fifth row. Cynicism, real live raciness, speed, boredom, naivete, a boy and a girl on horseback, and several admittedly clever studio shots are all hurled thither and yon for the bafflement of the audience. But you can't fool skilled observers. It's sex, and, incidentally, one of the most abortive attempts at entertainment that Hollywood has seen fit to foist on Americana. Time your entrance for "Manslaughter" and if you don't know what men want, this is no time to learn. The management has handsome red lights denoting...

Author: By R. C., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/17/1930 | See Source »

Sassoon apparently never lost his nerve, but never felt himself a very competent officer. "My main fear was that I should make a fool of myself. The idea of making a fool of oneself in that murderous mix-up now appears to me rather a ludicrous one; for I see myself merely as a blundering, flustered little beetle; and if someone happens to put his foot on a beetle, it is unjust to accuse the unlucky insect of having made a fool of itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fusilier* | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Recaptured Love (Warner). Dedicated to the proposition that there is no fool like an old fool, this shows how a clever wife handles an aging husband's infatuation with a younger woman. No new twist is given the theatrical stencil except the inept title which, proclaiming the denouement, effectively checkmates suspense. On the stage it was Misdeal, a play by Basil Woon. Belle Bennett and John Halliday are in it. Best sequence: Miss Bennett teasing the husband who wants to come home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 25, 1930 | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...When I was in Congress, I had as much as $50,000 in bills stacked on my desk- dishonest money. But I said to them: 'Take it away!' Maybe I was a fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: A Fool, Maybe | 8/18/1930 | See Source »

...combination of green pepper and tomato which his wife, Lilyan Tash- man, named "topepo." He plays good golf, dislikes radio, is fond of wearing yellow gloves, goes to church every Sunday. His best part was the tough top-sergeant in What Price Glory. Other pictures: The Silent Command, The Fool, The Cock Eyed World, Through Different Eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 11, 1930 | 8/11/1930 | See Source »

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