Word: gills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What makes this trivial investigation of a painful subject more entertaining than most musicomedies is that it: 1) offers a variation, however slight, on the backstage epic; 2) includes a diversity of subsidiary entertainment features, climaxed by the efforts of Florence Gill as an imitator of chicken noises; 3) offers Patsy Kelly the first chance the cinema has given her to prove that she is probably the most expert specialty comedienne in Hollywood...
SIDONIA M. GILL...
...GILL...
Father Cox had the National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service speed reporters to Federal Emergency Relief Administration headquarters in Washington. Was FERAdministrator Harry Hopkins "becoming concerned over the birth rate among families on relief?" No! "Was he gathering information on the subject?" No! Assistant FERAdministrator Corrington Gill rushed off a telegram to Father Cox: "FERA has not collected statistics of this nature...
...quote from the New York Times of Tuesday, January eighth, part of a statement made by R. J. Gill, "Richard 'the Lion Hearted' Harlow makes men out of mice"-and who knows, that may be just what he'll be up against...