Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Motion Picture Producers, the laugh was on Hollywood. Unlike its corpulent new companions, the newcomer has no bank loans (therefore no bankers to please). This enviable position is due to the astuteness of a Manhattan financier named Herbert John Yates, who formed the studio from three independents six years ago, has run it himself ever since...
...advantage of speaking the same language as the President. They also shared the same Junker ideal of life. They discussed their estates, they went shooting together, and spoke of the Kaiser as His Imperial Majesty. It was a well-known fact that nobody could make the Field Marshal laugh as heartily and as often as Fraenzchen." To Hindenburg, he was soon "a mixture of aide-de-camp, foster son and confidential adviser...
...hard to laugh the whole investigation off, but at a time like this such laughter rings a bit hollow. When the elected representatives of this country openly declare, as Senator Nye did, that they are "not, as yet, in favor of bringing the question of anti-Semitism into the investigation," then some sort of scepticism regarding their motives might well be expected...
...owner ever. Of its 6,126,482 bales, 4,778,321 are from the 1937 crop, have now cost the Government (including carrying charges) 12.2? a Ib. Now CCC can swap part of these holdings for hard cash. Besides a small profit, the corporation will also get the last laugh on the experts who in 1940 predicted the U.S. would end by burning its cotton hoard...
...significant drama. From the opening corpse through three acts' worth of looking for the killer, the cliches trip over each other in their eagerness to get across. The wise-cracking reporters, the unconnected telephone, the slow-witted darkie, they're all there, most of them good for a laugh, the rest for a yawn. The second act in particular is pretty slow-moving, though Mr. Kaufman is doubtless concocting new tricks to bolster it up by the time he's ready to bring his proteges to the roaring Forties for an extended visit. There's still a lot of deadwood...