Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fire test of the box-office value of a new film was to show it privately to a group of schoolgirls aged 15 to 20. What they liked he lent money on. Berated once by a bank examiner for having risked $500,000 on Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, he replied: "I think it a better investment than a Liberty Bond." The Kid paid back its loan in five months, and Liberty Bonds dropped to 80. In 1931 Bank of America National Association, into which the East River Bank had grown, was absorbed by Manhattan's National City...
...John Chisum. He pronounced Guadalupe "Warloopy," mixed history, folklore, social theory with his memoirs, all of which was taken down by his audience. Jim was captured by Indians when he was n, grew up with them, married an Indian girl, escaped. He worked as a cowhand, knew Billy the Kid, outsmarted Old Man Chisum, was a storekeeper, justice of the peace, postmaster, road supervisor, once arranged to have Colorado City, Tex. shot up in his honor when his fortunes stood high. Now he travels from one auto tourist camp to another, looks like Walt Whitman, cherishes a grandiose plan...
Died. Jobyna Howland, 56, six-foot-tall, self-styled original Gibson Girl, celebrated character actress and musicomedienne (The Gold Diggers, Kid Boots, Ruggles of Red Gap); of heart disease; in Hollywood...
...Singing Kid" Al Jolson gives another singularly uninteresting performance. Jolson's line is extremely limited and for this reviewer, at least, his appeal has utterly worn out. He is a past master at the art of letting his supporting cast take the picture out from under his nose, as Edward Everett Horton, the Yacht Club Boys, and most of all, Cab Calloway and his band, do in this picture. If the Cab and his band had had more of a part the whole thing might have been worth seeing. As it is he appears only a few short times...
Immature though his sense of generality may be, Playwright Shaw displays an easy, forceful style of writing. Says one of his live soldiers to another: "Kids shouldn't be dead, Charley. That's what they musta figured when the dirt started fallin' in on 'em. . . . Did they want to be standin' there when the lead poured in? They wanted to be home readin' a book or teachin' their kid c-a-t spells cat or takin' a woman out into the country in an open car with the wind blowin...