Word: franticness
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Stepping Sisters (Fox) is a frantic little farce, derived from the comic strips via Broadway, where a play by the same name enjoyed an almost surreptitious run a year ago. The fun in Stepping Sisters largely at the expense of a chorus girl turned socialite (Louise Dresser), is of the "Bringing up Father" variety. Two of the socialite's onetime confreres?one of them (Jobyna Howland) turned tragedienne the other (Minna Gombell) still a blowzy trouper who swaggers with her hips-help stage an allegory...
...automobile wreck near Gilroy. Calif., a frantic woman and a suicide revealed last week a long hidden U. S. Army masquerade. The woman was a Mrs. Gertrude McEnroe, who had come to San Francisco from Butte, Mont, to be with Lieut. William J. French, on leave from Camp Devens, Mass. Early one morning Lieut. French and Mrs. McEnroe started to motor to Los Angeles. As they approached San Jose, the officer suddenly became violent, struck his companion over the head. Then he drove into a tree. Mrs. McEnroe was picked up by a truck. Police investigating the smash-up found...
...plot involves the loss of the winning ticket in a lottery; and the frantic search through most of Paris for this bit of paper leads to many pleasant ramifications. Especially funny is the burlesque of grand opera, showing that the opera stages of France are burdened with no less clumsy pachyderms masquerading as young lovers, than...
Rene Clair, director of the film "Le Million," also supervised the production of "Sous les Toits de Paris," and is noted for his subordination of dialogue to pantomine. The plot of the film is chiefly that of a lost lottery ticket and of the frantic efforts to recover...
...things. The student would be free to absorb all this and grasp the far-reaching implications of the subject as well as the logical pattern of its factual basis, as provided by the notes. Lectures could become a means of enjoyment and intellectual satisfaction, rather than a mere frantic wearing-out of pencils...