Word: lewes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles. The other half is devoted to a dull narrative in which James Stewart and Joan Crawford, as a pair of professional skaters (who never skate), achieve fame in the movies. Silliest sequence: Stewart's heroic farewell to his skating partner (Lew Ayres) when their act breaks...
Soap Dodger Pendleton, leader of the Scatterfield gang, was the junkman's son, a blond, dirty, resourceful brat who spat tobacco juice in the ink wells. He devised ingenious persecutions for teachers' pets and snitches and for most grownups except old German Lew, who gave the gang beer, and old Charlie Heston, a drunken, ironic ex-astronomer who rhapsodized over ugly, muddy Scatterfield, which he called the Roman Empire...
...unique Trans-Lux theatre presents another of its unusual programs featuring an excellent digest of the current news. In addition, the bill includes a diverting selection of short subjects: a color cartoon called "Little Moths, Big Flames"; "Screen Snapshots"; "Stranger Than Fiction"; "Athletic Oddities," narrated by the tongue-conscious Lew Lehr; "House-wife Herman," a Technicolor Terrytoon; and "Washington Parade...
...Captain Lew Hamity--"The men on the football team play because they love it and naturally don't want to see it abolished here I don't favor playing a schedule with small colleges, although a lighter schedule might be advisable...
Spring Madness (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Mildly amusing little collegiate comedy headlined by Lew Ayres and Maureen O'Sullivan and notable chiefly for the way in which Actor Burgess Meredith, hailed three years ago as the Hamlet of 1940. belies his reputation by bringing to his impersonation of a Harvard senior the same mannerisms he used when spouting very blank verse in Winterset...