Word: lavishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earth (Fox) is a typical Will Rogers comedy. The chief charm of his pictures lies in the easy, colloquial garglings of Funnyman Rogers. Rogers is Pike Peters, an Oklahoma oil nabob who tugs darkly at his sloppy felt hat while he contemplates his wife (Irene Rich), who loves giving lavish parties, and his son (Matty Kemp), who buys a $17,000 Rolls-Royce second hand for $9,000 and tells his father that he has made $8,000 profit. Rogers: "Say, son, that's fine. You'll be a millionaire if you can keep on doing that." Presently...
...year-old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell feels his work is done, now that he has reorganized his province, built up his cherished Boston College, erected many & many a Roman Catholic church, school, charitable institution. Hale & hearty as he is, he perhaps tires of Boston, of his lavish three-story Italianate house which, built on a rock ledge, is jarred by passing trolleys and trucks. Perhaps Cardinal O'Connell would prefer to spend his remaining days in tranquil Rome, where stands his titular church, ancient San Clemente, which he has beautified at a reputed cost...
...position which carried with it much contact with politicians. Last week Sir Henry's downfall was being discussed in Ottawa, Montreal, Winnipeg and Vancouver. It was easy for one side to say he was not a good railroadman, that he had wasted his company's money in lavish expenditures on the road and on himself. But it was just as easy for the other side to say that throughout his career Sir Henry had forever been confronted with the difficult task of keeping out of politics...
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Fox). Somewhat baffled by the problem of making the kind of pictures which cinemaddicts prefer, most producers do not attempt to specialize. Alert cinemaddicts realize, however, that there are a few exceptions to this rule. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer runs to lavish casts. Universal last year was addicted to monsters. Encouraged five years ago by the vast success of Seventh Heaven to believe that simple, sentimental romances of the type which Mary Pickford played in 15 years ago are not yet obsolete, Fox has diligently furnished them. Usually Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are hero & heroine. Their...
...waiting for the new world's biggest theatre to open, the old world's biggest theatre, the Roxy cinema palace in Manhattan, last week closed for three weeks. Lavish stage shows had failed to attract the weekly $75,000 necessary for profit. When it reopens, less lavishly, its 5,920 seats will be outnumbered by International Music Hall's 6,000-odd. It may forfeit the name of Roxy to another of the Rockefeller Center theatres...