Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Singing Kid (Warner). Cinemaddicts for whom Warner Brothers musicals have hitherto been trademarked by the presence of Ruby Keeler, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee and Frank McHugh, may well rub their eyes to discover herein such novelties as Negro Bandmaster Cab Calloway, the Yacht Club Boys, a British-sounding ingenue named Beverly Roberts and a 6-year-old moppet called Sybil Jason, imported from Capetown by way of London. Among child actresses, Sybil Jason is to Shirley Temple as Jean Harlow is to Ann Harding: less whole some but more refreshing. She made her stage debut at 3. doing imitations...
Unfortunately, even a galaxy of new talent plus Actress Keeler's husband, Al Jolson, cannot entirely disguise the fact that, aside from its personnel. The Singing Kid sticks with alarming fidelity to the tradition of its predecessors. Its story runs to formula. A song & dance man (Jolson) loses girl, money, voice, regains the latter two under the impetus of fresh romance. Production numbers, with the exception of one in which the Yacht Club Boys heckle Jolson for his Mammy songs, have a warmed-over air. As entertainment, it boils down to a simple question of taste: Is Jolson...
That's what makes it so hard to understand in "The Singing Kid" why she runs away with his lawyer leaving Al to face the T Men from the Internal Revenue Department. But Claire Dodd, who once again is the unfaithful, deceitful woman does just that with Lyle Talbot, who is cast in the unfamiliar role of the unpleasant attorney...
...about time somebody stepped in and told them what to do. And don't let anybody kid you, telling you you're not the one to do it. Anybody that can get along in politics the way you did is bound to be right. And you have to keep your eye on those college boys, because pretty soon they're going to be voting, and if you don't see to it that they know what's what, who will? The Dartmouth, Sat., March...
...Kid Cann had witnesses, too. These definitely placed him in a chair at the Artistic Barber Shop, far from the scene of the crime, well before 5:41 p.m. and long after. When his case went to a jury of eight men and four women last week, they promptly returned a verdict of not guilty...