Word: louts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...married to rich Hugo Barnstead. Into the office walks Hugo Barnstead, to have a tooth pulled. Biff Grimes grimly turns on the gas, apparently planning to leave it on until Hugo is out of the way. Then comes a long flashback. It shows Biff Grimes, in youth a boastful lout, and Hugo (Neil Hamilton) meeting Virginia (Fay Wray) and her less exciting friend Amy Lind (Frances Fuller) at an amusement park; Hugo getting married to Virginia one evening when Biff thinks he has a date with her; Amy getting married to Biff, to console him. The door of Biff Grimes...
...sharp Swedish cartoon last fortnight flayed the Jewish scientist's plight in Nazi-land. The cartoon showed two browbeaten Germans eyeing a burly lout in the Nazi uniform who was striding through a university hall. First citizen: "What is the policeman doing here?" Second citizen: "Sh, sh. That is the man selected to succeed Einstein...
...development. Once the original idea sinks in there is nothing very comical-unless you think a joke improves with repetition -about the war with the Greeks which presently sets in. Naturally Antiope falls in love with a Greek hoplite (David Manners). When Hercules-portrayed as a puffing, timid lout by Stanley Sandford- stumbles into camp he is roguishly made a prisoner by Hippolyta's ringlet-bearded little spouse, who subsequently realizes that he can advance his coy campaign for the emancipation of men by giving Hercules what he came for, the girdle of Diana. When Hercules skulks off with...
...Night (Universal) is, as the title suggests, a timidly salacious little comic-strip, showing that its producers do not believe Tsar Will Hays's latest pronunciamento that "The general public today demand higher, not lower . . . standards from the screen." It shows an overgrown lout named Ronald Colgate (George "Slim" Summerville) trying to escape from the apron strings of an idiotically devoted mother (Laura Hope Crews) long enough to pay court to the nurse (Zasu Pitts) in a department store depositary for infants. When Ronald finally manages to marry his inamorata, Mrs. Colgate follows them to Niagara Falls on their...
...provider. One of the sons becomes a pompous hack-painter, married to a sleek and dressy strumpet. Another is an enfeebled hypocrite, whining at his wife instead of beating her, given to opening letters addressed to other persons. The daughter is married to an envious and impoverished lout. The only good son (James Dunn) has ill fortune. He is wrongfully imprisoned. On his release, he goes to Alaska on a mining trip which lasts so long that his return seems unlikely...