Word: humoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mixture between a gangster pictures, a behind-the-scenes musical cofedy, and a bus romance. It has all the thrills known to conventional movie-land,--speeding busses, motor-cycles and sirens, gangster hideouts, a misunderstood hero, gauze covered females, crooning erotic paw dances, luxurious bars, a gun-battle, tough humor, raucous humor, dirty humor, love and kisses. The packed theatre drooled in ecstasy...
Didn't think you could do it. Humor and subtlety...
Wholly Pleasing. After a final, driving session with Il Duce in the chair, the put-putting motorboats carried ashore what was called a "pleasant surprise." Almost too smily as they landed and faced the Press and newscameramen, the English and French laughed, chortled, beamed. Apparently in the highest good humor, they announced "definite achievement" and "complete agreement" among the three Great Powers. Some things done at Stresa...
Matching the Post in bad humor "Cissy" Patterson then sent her chauffeur to Eugene Meyer's home with a gorgeously decorated box. Inside was her card inscribed: "So as not to disappoint you.' Beneath a spray of freesia, sweet peas anc forget-me-nots, Publisher Meyer found pound of raw meat...
...Curious Bride (Warner). Perry Mason (Warren William) belongs to the new school of cinema detectives. A lawyer by profession, an amateur chef by avocation, he investigates crime mainly for his own exhilaration. In The Case of the Curious Bride he is thrown into a state of high good humor when an old friend (Margaret Lindsay) pries him out of the kitchen to announce that her first husband, whom she thought dead, has reappeared, complicating her relations with her second, wastrel son of a millionaire. When he goes to call on the first husband and finds him murdered, Perry Mason...