Word: hats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half years is long enough to forget the look of anyone, even George V. Up to his illness in 1928, riders in London's famed Rotten Row used to recognize His Majesty every morning and doff their hats, he doffing in return. Last week the King rode in Rotten Row for the first time since his illness, rode almost unrecognized by smart Rotten Rowers. Only six hats came off to His Majesty, much to his amusement, his relief. In the old days he had to ride down Rotten Row with his hat-arm working like a semaphore...
Word came from London that Sir James Matthew Barrie (Peter Pan), whose right hand has been crippled by illness, had issued 20 private copies of a 60,000-word biography called The Greenwood Hat. Those of his friends to whom he sent copies of the book, including his particularly close friend and fellow Scotsman, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald, are pledged to secrecy as to the volume's contents. Title of the book comes from a well-known Barrie legend. When he first went to London he decided to visit the late Editor Frederick Greenwood of St. James's Gazette...
...comedy which opened at the Wilbur Monday night, has definite moribund qualities. In fact it has been many long months since this reviewer has squirmed through a play that offered less in the way of entertainment. Billed as a comedy, "High Hat", for such the incipient theatrical corpse has been dubbed, presents a paucity of humorous dialogue, of amusing situations, and of adequate acting that is astounding in its completeness. It is easily possible to choose, not at random, but with scrupulous selectiveness the cream of the jests...
Viewed as anything you like "High Hat" can hardly rank above a noble experiment, Edna Hibbard and Richard Taber, capable as they have in the past proved themselves to be, upon this present occasion suffer from a lack of inspiration. Their best efforts were expended in the first five minutes when they gave a natural portrayal of two people getting up in the morning. Once out of bed they seemed to lose interest in the proceedings. And to lapse reluctantly into the vernacular, the play simply didn't "click...
...Smiling Lieutenant (Paramount) was expensively designed to provide Maurice Chevalier with proper and improper opportunities to display his ingratiating leer, wear a straw hat with dinner clothes, gurgle flip bedchamber music as the accompaniment of an amorous escapade. Ernst Lubitsch, hired to give the proceedings the correct continental air, used sarcastic burlesque to brighten up a plot which no one would need to be told came out of an Austrian novel. He had fairly good material to work with-the story of a young lieutenant who, during a review for visiting royalty, winked at his girl just as the Princess...