Word: isn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steamboat Round the Bend (Fox). When Marie Dressler died last year, Will Rogers promptly remarked: "Isn't the talking screen a wonderful thing for those who love a person? It allows them to live on after they have gone." If, as newspapers politely suggested last week, it occurred to Fox executives that Will Rogers' death last fortnight made it hard to know what to do with his two unreleased, completed pictures, this statement served as a convenient hint. Forty-eight hours after the Rogers funeral in Hollywood the first of the two, Steamboat Round the Bend, made...
...Figures exclude the pain and horror of savage mutilation-which means they leave out the point. . . . Even a mangled body on a [morgue] slab, waxily portraying the consequences of bad motoring judgment, isn't a patch on the scene of the accident itself. No artist working on a safety poster would dare depict that in full detail...
...visit. Thumping the box on the committee table, Representative Patton cried: "They're nickel cigars. There were 50 of them, and I'd like to have never gotten rid of them. . . . That's the truth. I hope to God I might be struck dead if that isn't the whole truth-the whole expose of the whole business...
...query on the Rex "But isn't Australia terribly raw?" plump, vivacious Mrs. Lyons answered, "Yes, the salads!", her favorite repartee whenever Australia's rawness comes up. Another favorite remark of hers: "You must have happiness in married life. The mother should be like a beloved Queen." Burly, curly Joe Lyons when he saw Queen Mary several weeks ago for the first time in his life exclaimed involuntarily: "Magnificent! Magnificent...
Manchester once owed $5,000 for tennis balls alone, probably a record. "Going bankrupt isn't so bad as it sounds," he has said, adding reminiscently, "I remember my first bankruptcy. I was only 16 and went broke for a couple of thousand pounds [$10,000]. My trouble is that I have always been a mug-too trustful and willing to help others...