Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walking along Washington's 24th Street at dusk, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau came to a steep, icy hill. At the top of the hill stood his young daughter Joan with a long bobsled. Mr. Morgenthau threw himself flat on the sled. Joan climbed on his back. Down the hill they sped, to stop in front of the Czechoslovakia!! Legation. Secretary Morgenthau & daughter trudged up the hill, zipped down again, coasted until dinner time...
Forsaking All Others (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Dill Todd (Robert Montgomery) leaves his fiancee, Mary Clay (Joan Crawford), waiting at the church while he elopes with his old mistress. The best man, Jeff Williams (Clark Gable), then spanks Mary with a hairbrush. These antics are intended to suggest that all three characters are urbane patricians, filled with charm and worldly wisdom. Lest the point remain in doubt, they speak exclusively in hard-boiled whimsey. When Jeff calls on Mary he kisses her and says: "Perfectly beautiful outside! How inside?" Mary: "Swell, inside." This means that Mary has forgotten Dill...
Canadian Authors Douglas & LeCocq dedicate their "confidential guide" to England to "hit-and-run writers from England ... to Mary Queen of Scots, Joan of Arc, and other ladies who have misjudged the English-and to the Atlantic Ocean which keeps us apart." Author LeCocq has been to England; Author Douglas has not. Their little (112-page) satire on their Motherland scores many a palpable hit, is never far off the mark. Both for Americans who have been to England and for those who have never been nearer than Punch, Britannia Waives the Rules will be good interlinear reading...
Francis Lederer is the first matinee idol in years who seems able to delight both sexes and who possesses genuine histrionic talent. Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland again prove their right to the title of Hollywood's champion comedy pair and Joan Bennet is rapidly adding a screen presence to her considerable charms...
Sharon for Apple-Joan...