Word: harum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Central Park, the interrupting rainstorm and their going into a pavilion for shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing Figaro and the behavior of a trotter named Cupid in David Harum (Fox, 1934) who won his races when Will Rogers caroled Ta-rah-rah-boom-de-ay. Broadway Melody of 1938 is the first picture in which Miss Powell has had a dancing partner; she performs with George Murphy an Astaire and Rogerish number, I'm Feeling Like a Million...
Lucian Fletcher was born in 1824 at Lynchburg, Va., where he passed a harum-scarum life which came to its first climax when he became involved in a disgraceful shooting scrape. To save his skin, his father, a well-to do planter, packed Son Lucian off over the Blue Ridge into what is now West Virginia. And to care for this handsome but troublesome son, Planter Fletcher sent along two slaves, Arch and Mary...
...took a scunner against him, Hannes was condemned to be educated. While his brothers and sisters were brought up to be farmers he learned the three R's with the local pastor. Christiane, the Count's daughter, was his fellow-student, and they grew up to be harum-scarum pals. Then Christiane's father took her away and Hannes left home too, to learn engineering. After the War he went back to farming again, and one day he inherited his father's ancient acres...
...thousands & thousands of U. S. novel readers Lawrenceville is still the harum-scarum little preparatory school of the 1890's about which Alumnus Owen Johnson wrote in The Varmint and Tin Tennessee Shad. Unforgettable are sue) redoubtable characters as Dink Stover Doc Mcnooder, The Prodigious Hickey Flash Condit, Turkey Reiter, The Triumphant Egghead-a lusty lot, forever up to highjinks, forever bedevilling their masters...
...will no doubt fit well into the Marie Dressler type of role. The Wiggs children speak with similar accents, do not look at the camera, and are quite charming. True love is wholesomely portrayed by the winsome Evelyn Venable and Kent Taylor, who appeared together in David Harum. The affection of the pompous Mr. Stubbins (W. C. Fields) for Miss Bazy (Zazu Pitts) may be placed on a somewhat lower level, for Mr. Stubbins has to be lured toward the altar by the combined agencies of a matrimonial society and the succulent cooking of Mrs. Wiggs. In a picture...