Word: hokum
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...smoking a cigaret, rowing a boat, opening a door. Some is fair comedy-Roland Young's befuddled resignation to a world of phantoms and foul play; the friendly insolence of Eddie Anderson (Radio Comic Jack Benny's radio butler, Rochester Van Jones). All of it is hokum, tried & true...
...TIME'S reporter was there, he already knew Dorothy Lamour, and he claims he had no drinks. Far from being the "toughest audience" in the world, Hollywood's cinema people are among the tenderest. Living and working in a medium copiously suffused with sentimental hokum, it would be strange if they weren...
...show involved more theatrical hokum than Belasco cooked up in a life time; jiltings, blackmailings, fake marriages, et al. Last week reality caught up with it. Heavy with her third child by her third husband, Swimmer Peter Pick, Daughter Donna ran through her lines as Marge one day, died 14 and a half hours later in Englewood, N. J. delivering...
Open & Shut. Nearly all appraisals of Jesse Jones sound like the baldest kind of hokum success stories, 1929 model. The pattern of his career seems as simple as Boy Makes Good, except that the caption should probably be: Boy Makes Perfect...
...Loudly acclaimed was his trick of covering the open ends of a small beer barrel with paper, then distributing a few noggins from the keg among the audience. With dancing chairs, eerie levitation, mysterious cabinets and livestock summoned out of nowhere, Sim Sala Bim provided plenty of pleasantly stupefying hokum...