Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Godfrey" is the apogee of madness, and it succeeds for one very good reason; Carole Lombard. As you sit there helplessly in your seat, dissolved in hilarity, you are likely to begin attributing your shameful condition to William Powell or to the drunk who wrote the lines. But it's no good passing the buck. The latter two factors contribute considerable shares, to be sure, but Carole's the crux of the excruciation. You may have seen her often before (she's been in pictures more years than she likes to count), and never liked...
...Powell as Butler Godfrey, the threadbare, unshaven Harvard man whom she picked up off the city dump as the culmination of a scavenger hunt, is the vent to all her immoderate enthusiasm. When the butler's room is about to be searched for missing pearls, she tears through the house like a four-year-old looking for the Christmas tree, deliriously screaming. "Godfrey, Godfrey, hide them if you've got them, the cope are coming!" Later she plunges about in furious joy, convinced that Godfrey loves her because he put her, dressed in evening clothes, into the cold shower...
...resolved to marry Mrs. Simpson. It was apparent that Mr. Hearst, while personally investigating, ordered his newsorgans to play down as much as possible the Mrs. Simpson story, and in recent weeks Hearst editors have repeatedly blue-penciled or killed dispatches from London on this subject. Sir Godfrey Thomas, for 15 years Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales and now Assistant Private Secretary to King Edward, recently conferred at length with Mr. Hearst. This week Mr. Hearst's U. S. executives believed that the King had personally authorized their Chief to break the news of Edward VIII...
...whom IGA does business asked, and received, a 50% interest in the business, equal representation on the board of directors. There are now 65 IGA wholesalers with a total of 110 branches. Most of them are old, established houses like Milliken, Tomlinson Co. in New England and E. R. Godfrey & Sons Co. of Milwaukee (egg-bald, bespectacled President James D. Godfrey is chairman of the IGA board). From each store the wholesaler collects $3.50 per week for service. Each wholesaler pays IGA headquarters $4.75 per month per store for merchandising advice, mats, layouts, etc. Besides its brokerage commissions IGA receives...
Carole Lombard, whom we once thought was through, rose to tempestuous heights to steal the show from the suave William Powell in the most laughable comedy since "The Thin Man." Put "My Man Godfrey," now being held over for a second week at Keiths on your must list...