Word: high-class
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...first 175 pages he has written a good man's story, a story that many a pulp mag zine carries every month. Not, however, one that a high-class magazine, such as the Post or Scribner's would touch with a ten-foot pole. After that, with the exception of a few lines about the hero's death and his wife, the rest has no more relation to the first than day has to night...
Brilliantly adapted by Jo Swerling from a play by Ferenc Molnar, played up to the hubcaps by cinema's most famed comedy couple and high-class supporters, Double Wedding is a 100% sample of the haywire school. Its only flaw is that, with Hollywood's destructive knack for stylizing all its gestures, the technique of haywire comedy has reached a monotonous perfection. After two screwy characters have been established as potential sweethearts and their lives thoroughly scrambled with another couple's, the main element of suspense is what kind of melee the plot can wind...
...Snellenburg & Co., catering to thrifty buyers of low-priced goods, has been doing a lively business on Market Street since 1889 when the Snellenburg boys moved into that famed shopping centre from South Street. Distinctly high-class was- and is-Snellenburg's firm of lawyers, Brown & Williams, a rock-ribbed partnership of dignified Philadelphia tradition which employs only male stenographers. "General" Francis Shunk Brown, a righteous oldster of 79, is the senior partner. "General" Brown is also president of the Board of City Trusts, and that institution, through its administration of the Girard Estate, acts as Snellenburg...
...down before publication to 11¼ by 14 in., to make it manageable on newsstands. The first issue represented an investment of about $100.000. Best augury for its success last week was news of two competitors. Stage advertised a July issue completely devoted to the Cinema. Forthcoming is another high-class cinemagazine, Cinema Preview, to be published in San Francisco...
...death. Through the whole movie runs the note of inevitable tragedy ominous events follow each other rapidly--, and the sympathy of the audience is high pitched for the lovers caught in a net of death. At the first run in New York the ending was logical but sad, for Aherne dies. At the University he recovers from his wounds, and this unexpected twist belies all that goes before it, turning the movie into a high-class adventure...