Word: loved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history of Johns Hopkins is a history, of great men. Its first was that Godfearing, champagne-loving moneygrubber, Johns Hopkins. His namesake University would give much this week to find another like him. Son of a Maryland tobacco planter whose Quaker precepts made him free his slaves and put his sons to work, Johns Hopkins got no schooling after he was 12. He started his fortune by exchanging groceries and farm products for raw Maryland whiskey, selling the whiskey as "Hopkins' Best." He increased it by shrewd business ventures and hard-fisted money-lending. Because his only love...
...Angeles church choir, worked week days as a tailor's apprentice. When success first came to him in Hollywood he bought a lavish estate at Malibu Beach, four big automobiles. Brown's big song hits have been Singing in the Rain, Wedding of the Painted Dolls, Pagan Love Song, Broadway Melody, All I Do Is Dream of You, You Are My Lucky Star...
...thorough classical training. He studied at Manhattan's Institute of Musical Art. To earn a living, he took a job as a pianist in the First Little Show (1929), wrote Moanin' Low for Libby Holman. For Paramount Rainger and his lyricist Leo Robin wrote June in January, Love in Bloom and the songs Gladys Swarthout sang in Rose of the Rancho. When Paramount wants swing music, Mack Gordon and Harry Revel are set to work. Clowning at parties pleases them more. With little urging Gordon will hoist his 317 Ib. up onto a piano, coyly croon I Feel...
...Love Before Breakfast" years to be too, too smart. It is one of these pictures that tries conscientiously to be conscience-free. Whenever the sophistication peters out in English, the actors become blase in the approved Parisian style. For example, when Preston Foster invites Carole Lombard into his private office, she says, "Mousieur" and one sees instantly what a cosmopolitan she is. It's too bad the way Hollywood is forced to grind out pictures in such a furious frenzy. Clearly there is no time to write the small talk in advance, and the poor scared actors and actresses have...
...program very impressvely sums up the last twenty-five years in all their hectic strife. But the trick is worth only one rendering, and that has already been given by a much more charming pair of warriors, Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert, in "The Bride Comes Home". "Love Before Breakfast"; sour belches after