Word: grands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rumors circulating around Cambridge that Dick Harlow may turn out a football team this fall, a wave of "collegiatism" seems to have seeped into this stronghold of majestic indifference. Heading this sabotage on indifference is no loss a personage than Captain Charles (Champ) Hutter of the swimming team and Grand Marshal of the cheer-leading sextet...
...taken by itself, it leaves very little to be desired. Priestly Morrison is a perfect Grandpa Martin Vanderhof, his starting statements and dry wit made doubly effective by the subdued tone he uses. All the people are very real, albeit somewhat incredible, down to Ulla Kazanova as the Grand Duchess Olga, who comes one night from Childs Restaurant to cook the supper...
Something to Sing About (Grand National) is nothing to make a song about, but it returns two-fisted Cinemactor James Cagney to his theatrical nonage of 1924, when he was just one of the boys tapping routines in vaudeville. Though still unable to startle the dance world, he does unveil a new, more versatile Cagney. As Terry Rooney, Manhattan band leader, he is called to Hollywood for the great opportunity. He leaves his girl, Rita (Evelyn Daw), to wait until he has demonstrated once more how a star is born. Studio specialists on clothes, coiffure, and voice view him with...
...obvious parallel occurred in the life of Cinemactor Cagney when he quarreled publicly with Warner Brothers in 1936, threatened to give it all up and become a doctor. Now, under Grand National management, free to create new roles, he is still most effective in the kind of thing he used to do. This venture into musical drama demands neither a repeat performance nor condemnation proceedings...
...dance and watch a show on a stage that moved up, down, sideways and around, had so many complicated mechanical gadgets that a last-minute breakdown forced the management to cut the opening show in half. The show itself, like the rest of the International Casino, was on the grand scale more calculated to appeal to the world-&-his-wife than to sophisticated socialites, included a juggler, performing poodles, athletic choruses and a troupe of new style, plump, dimple-backed, languorous European chorus girls with bangs in their eyes...