Word: harridans
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...Mammy Singer Al Jolson, to punch Colyumist Walter Winchell, who suggested the story to Producer Darryl Zanuck (TIME, July 31). Broadway Through a Keyhole shows Crooner Jolson's grounds for fisticuffs were inadequate. The heroine of the picture (Constance Cummings) works at a night club run by a harridan named Tex Kaley (Texas Guinan). Ruby Keeler was once one of Texas Guinan's "little girls," but this parallel would not be enough to make any cinemaddict mistake the heroine or any of the other characters in the picture for real people. The heroine is a goodie-goodie chorus...
...send her money but takes away her gurgling child. The child grows up to be a soldier, sets out one night to have a good time. Propelled by laws of coincidence peculiar to stories like this one, he goes to the very cabaret where Irene Dunne, now a dignified harridan, is acting as mistress of ceremonies. She is able to take the blame when he murders the father of a girl he is trying to seduce. Most inevitable shot: the son (Douglas Walton) denouncing his grandfather in court, where the truth comes...
...Religion and its handyman Charity were pioneers. In small Beverly, Ivy, a few years ago, there was an Evangelical Station, one doctor, one nurse. In Hyden (population 320) there was a Presbyterian Mission, one doctor making occasional rounds. For the most part the district got its medical care from harridan midwives and "salve doctors" who peddled strange "yarb" concoctions...
...asthma clinic at Deux Estaings crowd many sufferers, hypochondriacal and real. The doctor tells them flatly to help themselves?he has little use, though considerable pity, for human beings sick or well. Even Laure, his peasant-girl wife, finds him unapproachable. Only her maman, Madame Teterger, a closefisted harridan who runs the clinic and everybody in it, dares face him. When, over the extravagant construction of a new wing to the clinic, she reads him the riot act, he turns away in scorn, falls off the balcony to the cement ground floor...
...Wisconsin Scandinavian trade would be allowed to combine shapes in this brutal and reckless fashion." The 5 bothers him particularly. He reproduces its black bulk on one page followed for comparison by seven 55 from the fonts of celebrated designers. Overleaf is a little drawing of a fat harridan leaning against the Treasury's figure while a slender nymph stands by a modern 5 of Dwiggins design. Then he says...