Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather facetious critical mood Mr. George Jean Nathan once observed that American high comedy failed because when one character had insulted another, something devastating was said in return; whereas, in English high comedy, the offended person simply strolled off the stage announcing that he was going out to have a little tennis What Mr. Nathan says is not strictly true; yet high comedy in both England and America certainly does not fulfill its possibilities. Superficially it is good, but at the crucial moment it bogs down and turns from drama into sentimentality...
...this week simultaneously in 120 cities throughout the land. Paramount could well feel that it had done its level best to make Christmas bright and merry for millions of youngsters. Who was to play Alice was Paramount's Problem No. 1. Charles Laughton, not altogether facetiously, suggested that Jean Harlow would make an ideal Carroll heroine. Paramount settled the matter by means of a '"contest" in which some 7,000 would-be Alices were considered. After a minimum of hemming and hawing the prize role was given to a pretty round-faced 17-year-old girl from Brooklyn...
...Starring Jean Murat and Annabella the French talking film, "Paris-Mediteannce", will be shown Thursday and Friday in the Institute of Geographical Exploration. The picture is purposed to be an exciting adventure story, start with a case of mistaken identity...
Talking above the victim's protests, Pete said, "I do plenty tattoos for Harvard mugs--they like the high class woiks. Two weeks ago I do a Mona Lisa on arm of Harvard Freshman. He like her so much, he say he get Jean Harlow on stomach next week maybe. You like know how much Harvard seal cost. It plenty woik. Good one cost three, four dollars. They say fella named Cunnant out there want to change seal. That good idea--seal they got now too much woik. But I put 'veritas' on you for six bits. On the other...
...Jean Harlow, as Lola, strikes the high point of her spasmodic career. She is an excellent comedienne; without a whiskey, or humorous line she manages to shine in every scene in "Bombshell." Lee Tracy is adequate as the press agent. Paging Will Hays. Your censors are a feeble...