Word: girlishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enormously fat, lethargic Alfred Hitchcock (Thirty-Nine Steps) in the department of nightmarish melodrama. For sheer sentiment he is probably no match for pudgy, high-voiced George Cukor (Camille, Holiday). For action pictures he is topped by John Ford (Hurricane), or Victor Fleming (Captains Courageous, Test Pilot). For capitalizing girlish sweetness at the box office, he is certainly no rival to Viennese Henry Koster, imported by Universal two years ago, to whom Deanna Durbin and Danielle Darrieux owe a large part of their current popularity. For urbane, continental sophistication, he is outclassed by Ernst Lubitsch, who last week announced that...
...Sister Eileen, 26-year-old Ruth McKenney harks back to that happy period with the air of a mellow oldster. Originally published in The New Yorker, the 14 sketches in My Sister Eileen give a cloudy picture of Eileen, a clearer view of Ruth herself, a better account of girlish misadventures during elocution lessons, bird studies in a girls' camp, a correspondence with a French boy in a high-school class in French, the embarrassments of waiting on table in a Fred Harvey lunchroom, interviews for a college paper...
...belle of the Epworth League, the sensation of the eighth grade. Ruth, however, with her stutter, her ability to play baseball, the social ostracism that followed her brilliant performance in the Northern Ohio Debating League, was cut out for trouble. Not entirely given over to girlish recollections, My Sister Eileen is weakest when it approaches slapstick, as in accounts of Father McKenney's washing-machine business; funniest when Author McKenney recalls the simpler sides of old Ohio life-newspaper serials, silent movies, road shows, music lessons, the tangled plots and intrigues that flourished in girls' camps and high...
...English-speaking audiences, is a frothy comedy designed to capitalize both her talent for wearing expensive clothes and her as yet imperfect English. Taking no unnecessary chances, the company assigned as her director Henry Koster, who in the first two Durbin pictures managed to emphasize the star's girlish naivete without letting it get completely out of hand. Result is a pleasingly preposterous little fable which, while more sophisticated than any of Miss Durbin's contributions, rivals them in its fresh and energetic charm...
...back from Chateau d'If (which takes about forty minutes by boat) I sat next to three girls who looked French but spoke Greek. They praised Dumas' imagination, showed traces of profound interest in the ancient "Massilia" during the Gallo-Roman epoch, then turned girlish and discussed men: Frenchmen were too short, but nice to be gay with; Germans were rough but make good husbands; Englishmen are stiff and cold; Americans are rich-but oh, so very young! Yet how good it would be to meet some men, no matter from where. "Come, Loretta. you are nearest, shall we commence...