Word: funs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...movies are a refuge for actors with little skill and greedy pocketbooks," Walter Huston said yesterday when interviewed in his backstage dressing room at the 46th Street theatre. "You can make a lot of money in the cinema, it's true, but, compared to the stage, it's no fun...
...Fun. Fairs are usually remembered for 1) their effect on contemporary architecture, 2) their naughtiest exhibits, 3) their deficits. Unlikely to have either a notable influence on architecture (TIME, Jan. 2) or to admit a deficit, San Francisco's fair is still in the competition with its naughty-naughties. Handicappers' current No. 1 choice is Sally Rand's troupe of cowgirls, wearing boots but no saddles on a "Dnude* Ranch" behind plate glass (see cut p. 16). Instead of "Midway," the fair's fun section is called "Gayway," which, although it means red-light district down...
...Carnegie Corporation survey of the cinema industry, paid touching tribute to the guest of honor: "Any man who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad." Not the least astonishing thing about You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is that it is almost as good fun to watch as it must have been to make. Typical shot: Fields threatening to get McCarthy, with whom he continues his radio feud, a pair of beavers...
...returning to Cambridge, they saw Harvard Square piled high with hard-packed ice and immediately took to their picks and tongs. One mountaineer was heard to say, "It's even more fun to scale the mighty snow drifts than build smooth babes out of snow...
Lincoln Talks consists of some 800 anecdotes lifted from correspondence, newspapers, biographies, books of jokes, gossip, legend. Any Lincoln story is fun to read, and since Editor Hertz frankly tried to collect all the stories rather than all the true stories, this anthology makes particularly easy reading. Its Lincoln is lovable, immensely humorous, quick as an eagle, wise as an owl, gentle as a dove. For the rest, the book adds to the bulk if not to the substance of the honest truth about Honest...