Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Danger-Love at Work (Twentieth Century-Fox). Junior Pemberton (Bennie Bartlett) had at ten the condescension of a fellow who was ready to enter Harvard. Uncle Alan (Walter Catlett) collected stamps. Brother Herbert (John Carradine) called himself a postsurrealist; he painted sublimations in bathrooms, on bay windows, hired a man to douse him with water when working on a marine subject. Mother Pemberton (Mary Boland) was notable for an insane kind of poise which she maintained even when the cook got drunk and had to be locked in the mop closet, or the downstairs maid tried to touch the family...
...Maurice Cass) was the hardest one to persuade. To prove that civilization was a failure, he was living, dressed in bearskins, in a cave adjacent to his 40-room house. By the time Goliath signed the power of attorney on a piece of hide, Toni and Henry were in love. Toni knew that her family would never speak to her again unless she was married in church - so she and Henry went to a justice of the peace...
Amiably following the established for mula for stories about crazy families, Danger - Love at Work is unpretentious, well-paced and often very funny. Typical scene: Papa Pemberton trying to pick out the proper type of shotgun for use at a fashionable wedding...
...door. Last winter in Vienna Lotte Lehmann wedged her way right through with a first novel.- With her book now in its third edition in Austria, translated into Italian, French and Czech, 35-year-old Novelist Lehmann last week made her debut in the U. S. A love story, in the same vein as Marcia Davenport's best-selling Of Lena Geyer, Mine Lehmann's story attempts no coloratura flights, is content to be an amiable romance...
...down. Instead, the Senator carries him off to the city, shows him off to his friends for a while, then-puzzled by the big fellow's innocent evangelism-gets him a sort of personal-appearance job at a night club. Caley reigns there for a time, falls in love, gets his life story printed in the newspapers. Then people again turn apathetic. With only shady prospects before him now, Caley realizes at last how little belief there was in his good intentions, how cheaply sensational the general interest had been. In the end, still trying vaguely to do right...