Word: lucklessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a decade cinemaudiences have known short-tempered, pince-nezed Actor Robert McWade as the crabbiest, crustiest crosspatch that ever foreclosed a mortgage or sicked the dogs on a luckless swain. Last week in Hollywood, 56-year-old Actor McWade, in the oppressive regimentals of a Civil War officer, went wearily over & over a scene with James Stewart in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Benefits Forgot. He couldn't seem to smooth out his lines. Finally he got them straight. Veteran Director Clarence Brown shouted orders, "Cut, save the lights," and rubbed his hands. "Fine," he exulted, "fine...
...State Department almost certainly established the identity of Mr. & Mrs. Donald L, Robinson, who recently disappeared in Moscow (TIME, Dec. 27), as a Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Arnold Rubens; further clarified the case by disclosing that New York's luckless County Clerk Albert Marinelli, who resigned from office month ago in the face of charges that members of his staff were ex-convicts, had issued the passports as a special kindness to a Mr. A, who had forwarded the applications as a political favor to a Mr. B, who obliged a Mr. C who had wanted to help...
Addicts of light opera might be offended by a humorous or credible plot. Three Waltzes in this respect is singularly inoffensive. Its charm lies in tuneful music, ebullient singing and dancing, vivid staging. In a ballet school, with costumes after Degas, begins the luckless romance of the ballerina (Kitty Carlisle) and Count Rudolph (Michael Bartlett). In Paris of 1900 the same pair appear as another ill-starred couple, with the ballet converted into Toulouse-Lautrec girls doing a violent cancan. At last, in a contemporary cinema studio, the lovers, as descendants of their former selves, find their happy ending...
...would be worth mentioning for one fact alone: it brings to a wider audience Comic Bert Lahr's theory that only a barytone can chop a tree. It has other virtues as well: Jimmy Savo, exquisite pantomimist whose film career was nearly blighted two years ago by a luckless appearance in Ben Hecht's & Charles MacArthur's haphazard Once in a Blue Moon; Billy House, fleshy Mr. Bones of old-time minstrelsy; addlepated Comedienne Alice Brady; Mischa Auer, well cast as a lean and bony swami. Foster Fathers Savo, Lahr, House and Auer combine their comic efforts...
...Lieut. A. C. Keller spotted the survivors from his naval plane, dropped smoke bombs and plunged down in dangerous power dives which frightened off the sharks long enough for the Mendota to reach the scene, pull the exhausted mariners from the water 40 miles from the grave of the luckless Tzenny Chandris...