Word: haphazard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Artists & Models (Paramount) begins with the Yacht Club Boys hysterically assembling a musical comedy production number for Chairman Mac Brewster (Jack Benny) of the Artists & Models Ball. That Chairman Brewster's terse comment, "It stinks," does not describe the haphazard entertainment that follows is mainly owing to the scenes which Jack Benny relieves with his deprecating brand of drollery. Otherwise Artists & Models, with Director Raoul Walsh struggling to wedge into it enough people and music for three shows, would have difficulty adding...
...slipping Equity were heard in 1929 when President Gillmore descended upon Hollywood to persuade that still rambunctious community to join up with Equity. He returned to Broadway with no cinema contracts. It was not until in 1933 that Hollywood, by then feeling public stirrings of social-consciousness, formed a haphazard Screen Actors Guild which, like Equity, received its charter from American Federation of Labor through a loose-knitted "International" organization called Associated Actors & Artistes of America (A. A. A. A.) Not even Equity members were sure whether it was victory or a concession when Gillmore thereupon laid down...
...road when Bertha was an infant. Bertha's "first playhouse was a box car." Her progressive education began early: her teachers were labor agitators, I. W. W.'s, prostitutes. From their talk Bertha picked up her three S's: sex, strikes, socialism. Included in her haphazard schooling were two years during the War in an Arkansas cooperative colony run by radicals and conscientious objectors, where she read William Morris, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Zola. When her mother came back from an anti-War tour with a young Irish poet in tow, they all went to Seattle, where...
...Business School or the Chemical Department, but 1935 was the turn of the Social Sciences. Since the needs of each part of the University are studies and carefully rated and the drives are timed and coordinated accordingly, facts do not echo the old cry that Harvard is passive and haphazard about its gifts...
...first one-man show in the U. S. are notable for sinewy, flexible composition and color, a sort of high-spirited withdrawal from both cynicism and enthusiasm. Some of the small figures are minutely painted but faces seem to bore him; they are indicated by a few haphazard strokes, or simply by highlights on forehead and chin...