Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Huey Long's manners in 1927, taught him to play golf and enjoy himself in night clubs. Weiss became pressagent for the Roosevelt Hotel the same year, gave bounding Huey and his bodyguards a free suite of rooms for the publicity, has harvested ever since from that gag...
...Grade Allen Murder Case (Paramount), by the late S. S. Van Dine, refuses to accept murder as a serious business. Gracie calls Philo Vance "Fido," outfootles Sergeant Heath, falls for the murderer, gets the hero jailed. Typical gag: Gracie scrutinizing her own photograph, wondering, "Now, where have I seen that face before...
Though not exactly ideal fare of the long-suffering exam-taker, "Dark Victory" is, nonetheless, a picture which deserves consideration and respect. In fact, anytime a producer goes against the laws of "sure-fire box office" and puts out a tragedy that relies on dramatic effect rather than gag lines for entertainment, that producer has a lot of respect due to come his way, but he's also courting box office defeat. Fortunately, by the grace of the gods and the acting of Bette Davis, "Dark Victory" is no defeat, although it is a rather dark victory. After all, watching...
...Arts in today's United States are shackled to a financial oligarchy by their dependence on private patronage. Plays must have their gag lines, books their seductions, and opera its Diamond Horseshoe, all to entice the sacred dollars out of those few well-filled pocket-books. For without those dollars, the Arts cannot live. Partly to break those shackles which link the Arts so irretrievably with private enterprise, the Administration at Washington inaugurated the Federal Arts projects. By subsidizing these projects, the Government has tried to life the Arts above the dictates and limits of a limited public and pass...
...Still going strong after 18 months, Pins and Needles 1939, has basted in six new numbers, ripped out four old ones, looks better in its new dress. Best new gag: Neville Chamberlain's "if at first you don't concede, fly, fly again." Best new numbers: The Red Mikado which kids the Mikado epidemic with placards announcing a Flea Mikado and Strip Mikado. One of the neo-Gilbert lyrics...