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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kiss of Importance should please people who like quasi-sexual French comedy performed by excellent actors. It is tastefully done and venerable Frederick Kerr, 72, father of Geoffrey Kerr (London Calling, This is New York) gives the production a certain air of dignity. Admirers of the charming elder Kerr believe that if everybody grew up to be a septuagenarian like him, the world would be a better place. Included in the cast is Basil Rathbone (The Captive, The Command to Love), a handsome ascetic mummer. Along with Mr. Kerr, Actor Rathbone appeared in The Czarina and in the cinema Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 15, 1930 | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...form's law of balance," which, though curiously sinister, did not come off. Most startling and ingenious of the new numbers was "Narcissism," in which Miss Enters swaggered out on the state, gyrated to a wheezy phonograph, became convincingly drunken with self-love, was suddently moved fiercely to kiss her reflection in a mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: FEMALE PUCK | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...scene laid in a dry-cleaning establishment owned by two Hebrews. The people address each other in loud low-comedy style. They spray cleaning fluid at one another, punctuate much of their conversation with a vulgar oral noise known variously as "the bird," "the Bronx cheer," "the Chinese kiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 1, 1930 | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...capable, but gave Jane nary a thrill. Ernest was a bright one, talked socialism at her 16 to the dozen; when he paused for breath took liberties. Jane did not really like him but he did excite her. But when handsome, aristocratic Artist Bryan gave her an absent-minded kiss, got her to pose for him in the nude, Jane lost her heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fairy Tale Among Factories* | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

Pressman Cooper, who has a good ear for music, did not keep the script which Composer Herbert gave him, being able to memorize tunes quickly. In some parts of Indiana, "Kiss Me Again" is still "Kent Cooper's Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Birth of a Song | 10/27/1930 | See Source »

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