Word: goin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goin' to Town (Paramount). She Done Him Wrong, the first picture in which Mae West was starred, was her funniest. I'm No Angel made the most money, $3,000,000. The cleanest was Belle of the Nineties, at the height of last summer's Legion of Decency Campaign. Goin' to Town is the only one which deals with the contemporary scene but, aside from this detail, it is distinguished mainly by the strictness with which it adheres to the basic West formula which, as the constant element in all four of her productions...
Most obvious ingredients in the West formula are her extraordinary shape, clothes and means of locomotion. In Goin' to Town she is fatter about the middle than hitherto. Her clothes are less extravagant and consequently less becoming. Her gait remains unchanged...
...Jemmen," he began, "you all might as well go on back fuh ain't no good goin' to come of what you is up to. Yu is jest goin' to make trouble and hurt yo'se'ves and hurt Howard University. How is you goin' to git 'propriations ef you carry...
...routine into something that resembles a panorama painting of an army on the march. Songs in Wonder Bar are superior to those which Al Jolson sang in its stage version in Manhattan four years after he made the first successful talkie. The Jazz Singer. Most tuneful of them are "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule." "Why do I Dream those Dreams." In "Goin' to Heaven on a Mule" the rostrum in the Wonder Bar represents everything from a Negro cabin on the canebrake to a night club in Paradise with Gabriel performing on a saxophone. Like other recent...
...stop where he wanted, look twice at what he saw. Friends wanted to give him a send-off banquet but he, though he loves good food and good friends, demurred. He did not want "to sit around and hear a lot of goddam flattery. Because. I'm not goin', I'm comin'!" Onetime associate of Adman Barron Collier, Publisher Swasey joined the Hearst organization on New Year's Day 1919 by taking charge (at no salary) of the' Los Angeles Examiner which was then suffering a boycott by department store advertisers. Aware that...