Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large number of hostile Bedouins. You Can't Beat Love (RKO). Only effective method of waking up Lawyer Jimmy Hughes (Preston Foster) in the morning is for his browbeaten butler Jasper (Herbert Mundin) loudly to dare him to get out of bed. Once up, he joins a gang of ditchdiggers on a dare, swings pick & shovel in white tie and tails with Jasper in anguished attendance (see cut). He is dared to run for mayor by the incumbent's daughter Trudy (Joan Fontaine). Thereupon ensues a harmless set of political antics, most notable consequence of which is that...
...next setback as a disciplinarian was in the Government mental hospital at Buffalo. w?here he was transferred as an attendant. Promoted to mess manager, he once kept the kitchen gang overtime to rewash greasy dishes. In playful revenge they dropped a blanket over his head, pounded him with a plank. The officer whom he asked to arrest them replied: "It will do you good, this is America." After delivering a strait-jacketed Negro to Mississippi authorities, he was picked to attend Officers' Training School in Georgia, where for the first time he found things a little more suggestive...
...trade their canned foods for hat buttons, instruct Soldier Tjaden (Slim Summerville) in the U. S. art of gum-chewing (see cut). In the square of his native Klosterburg, frail Lieutenant Ludwig (Richard Cromwell) is stripped of his insignia by revolutionary ruffians. Romping Willy (Andy Devine) disperses the gang with an apple which he pretends is a hand grenade. Ernst (John King) breaks with his old sweetheart, shuns his family because he cannot endure the leisure and quiet of home. Frustrated and disillusioned, Ernst joins his mates nightly in rowdy drinking fests. Tjaden, wooing the mayor's daughter, gaily...
...Hollywood, Producer Hal Roach (Our Gang comedies) has arranged a string of Hollywood scenes calculated to spotlight Haley and Kelly in their inoffensive cutups. Taken to a nightclub by Lopez, Cecilia and Nellie see Joe, employed as a waiter, pretend that he is a performer, stumble into a bit of clowning which costs him his job. On a visit to a studio, they watch Lyda Roberti undulate, meet Laurel & Hardy who burlesque handsomely as mustached Mexican bandits. While Nellie casually knocks out Laurel & Hardy with a champagne bottle, Rinaldo snakes Cecilia away to his apartment where he starts to seduce...
...Dame Laura Knight, first woman ever to be on the Academy's selection committee, a famed painter of circus scenes. Dominating most of one wall in a main gallery was her massive canvas called London Palladium showing an unprepossessing young woman in evening dress watching the Crazy Gang, well known London vaudeville team, from a stage box. Manager Gerald Black of the Palladium snapped it up for $6,000 to embellish his lobby...