Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Otheman Stevens in the Los Angeles Examiner: "Some time ago a story of Billy the Kid was issued and called a 'Saga.' If that was a Saga Gun Notches is an Iliad, also an Odyssey. The story of a prairie fire is a bit of an exquisite word painting as ever was written; the incident when Bill Greene at La Cananea and Tom would have taken the State of Sonora from Mexico if Tom could have hog-tied General Kosterlitzsky is a new matter of history...
...cabaret girl (Dolores Del Rio) has her sweetheart (Norman Foster) jailed and removed from the country. All this is done with a superfluity of Mexican accent by Carrillo and Del Rio, and reiterations of clean young Americanisms by Foster, who encourages Del Rio by saying "Be game, kid." In the play these exaggerations made the action partly a parody of border romance. Because the cinema takes itself more seriously, the climax, where the millionaire lets the girl go in order to increase his selfesteem, seems out of character instead of gay and suitable. Del Rio chants, in almost Gregorian tones...
...have been run on March 20 and for which the great Australian horse Pharlap was entered this year, is the richest-$150,000 -horse race in the world. James Nugent Crofton barked his announcement sadly last week. "There's no longer any use of our trying to kid ourselves. . . . Shortage of money has been apparent. . . . The announcement that the Mexican Government would increase taxes on gate receipts was the final blow. . . ." Agua Caliente's racing deficit since the season started a month...
Skippy and Huckleberry Finn were far less profitable exhibitions than their producers intended them to be. Whether what are known, in the trade, as "kid pictures'' will continue to be made will therefore depend to some extent on the box office reception accorded Sooky which is handicapped by having no concern with sex or fear. Good shot: Skippy and Sooky securing a load of fuel for Sooky's mother by molesting the fireman on a train so that he throws lumps of coal at them...
King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olaf, members of the Cabinet and Oslo's diplomatic corps politely clapped their white kid gloves. The occasion was the sist annual meeting of the Nobel committee, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize for 1931 to two U. S. citizens: President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University and Social Worker Jane Addams of Chicago's Hull House. The award this year is $31,369; each will receive half...