Word: keiths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Laze Symmes is a giant, hard-driving Yankee, who punches his Portygee workers in the nose, terrorizes even the town banker. But when the hero, a skinny, down-&-out college graduate, goes to work in the factory, terrible Symmes has no chance. Scrawny Keith Bain simply parries his bullying with cool, ironical sass. When Symmes hesitates and fumes about giving Bain five cents more an hour, the puny David says: "Come on, Symmes, make up your mind. . . ." This defiance works so well, in fact, that Symmes invites him to board at his home...
...spite of its poisonous title, "Hold That Coed," current offering of the Keith Memorial Theatre, surprises as a near-uproarious satire. There are frequent dull moments, particularly when Hollywood gives its standard expose of how college students live, but the most of the situations are either so ridiculous or so close to the truth that they compel laughter. Enough in itself is the wild-eyed performance of John Barrymore as Gabby Harrigan, the governor with the Communist thatch, who makes political promises solely in order to brighten the voters' lives with anticipation. Framework for the picture's satiric thrusts...
...voice is the voice of Stentor, the hands are the hands of B. F. Keith. Helhapoppin turns out to be toothless old vaudeville trying to act like a lusty, bellowing babe. From the time the curtain goes up on a cockeyed newsreel in which Hitler talks with a Yiddish accent and Mussolini with a Negro one, Helha-poppin-gagging, hamming, roughhousing all the way-does not miss a trick...
Eugene Dickson Keith, Richmond, Kentucky--Wellington College, Berks, England...
...Keith Memorial is holding over Sonja Henie and Richard Greene in 20-the Century Fox's "My Lucky Star." One gargantuan skating sequence, the Alice in Wonderland ballet, dominates the picture, in spite of young Englishman Greene's pretty face. In addition is a dubious offering, "Personal Secretary", with William Gargan and Andy Devine...