Word: madcapping
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Powell, smiling, superior, quietly humorous, was far outshone by the impetuous Lombard. Madcap society daughter Lombard suffers from a bitter jealousy of her older sister. Searching for a forgotten man to help beat her sister in a scavenger hunt, Lombard finds Powell living on the city dump. Grateful to him for having helped beat her sister, Lombard adopts Powell as her protege and gives him the position of butler...
This vexed another pugnacious pundit. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, 69, who gained fame & fortune as an alienist for the defense of Madcap Harry K. Thaw in 1907 when "brain storm" was first offered as a valid excuse for murder. Commented Psychoanalyst Jelliffe: "Dr. Sachs was talking ex cathedra. It's just a new attempt to spread the old gossip and scandal we've been fighting for 40 or 50 years. They don't like to see us get any fees...
...Deeds Goes to Town" to take over the fortune of a mangled madcap uncle, and when the town learns of the twenty million dollars, the town comes to Mr. Deeds. Gary Cooper succeeds once again in delineating that gawky, boyish bashfulness that entrances even Marlene Dietrich. However shining a badge of genuineness such behavior may be outside of the movies, simplicity and naviete impart an unquestionable worth to a movie person...
...like the great man, but he disports himself in convincing and charming fashion. Myrna Loy does well with he small role of Billie Burke; Frank Morgan is superb as Billings, Ziggle's rival and boon companion; Ray Bolger has a small spot which he fills deliciously with his incomparably madcap dancing; Harriet Hoctor does a very charmingly graceful ballet and as we said before Luise Rainer seizes the dramatic honors with a magnificent portrayal of Anna Held...
Eager has attempted a serious domestic problem hidden in a mass of racy dialogue and superficial cleverness. Mr. John Barnard as an intelligent, mid-western husband could not remake his wife because of her madcap friends. Similarly, Miss Hall could not remake her madcap friends to accept her husband into their hearts. Miss Lois Hall reveals herself coyly as being in that "amusing condition," which should retie the severed bonds but doesn't. Mr. John Flower, whose role consists of a stalk across the stage in the second act with one deep-voiced remark is satisfyingly and gratifyingly manly...