Word: madly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mad Parade (Paramount). It is an extraordinary fact that although 65% of cinema audiences are women and the majority of men who attend cinemas follow the dictates of their companions, there is only one woman director in Hollywood (Dorothy Arzner) and no important woman executive. The Mad Parade is the first picture with an entirely feminine cast. Men are constantly discussed by the women members (Louise Fazenda, Lilyan Tashman, Irene Rich) of a canteen in the War, but no male actor appears in the picture with the possible exception of a large rat at whom the heroine (Evelyn Brent) throws...
Aside from this sort of novelty, The Mad Parade is neither an unusual nor a particularly interesting picture. The women, drinking brandy out of hot water bottles, cooking doughnuts, scuttling about in relief camps and shell holes and finally marooned in a besieged dugout, seem mainly animated by feelings of curiosity about the affair the heroine is having with an aviator. She is confiding details of this affair to her best friend when the rat appears. The hand grenade misses the rat, kills another one of the girls who was eavesdropping, after which Evelyn Brent volunteers to make a dash...
When Ludwig II, Bavaria's mad king, wished to honor his friend Wilhelm Richard Wagner on his sist birthday in 1864, he thought a piano would make a nice gift. But something really original in the way of a piano! He commissioned Carl Bechstein, who had been in the trade in Berlin for just eleven years, to make one. Today, visitors to Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth are always shown the large square desk, with drawers, built-in ink-stands and space for a beerstein, which turns out to have a piano inside it. And in Bechstein's house...
Next night a larger party came, augmented their din with wash boilers, drums, iron hoops, hammers, fiddles. Father Peterson, mad clear through, swore he would not pay one cent of tribute. Chairman Heino Nuutinen of the charivari committee retorted that they would stay there till he did, if it took a year. Twelve nights the charivari continued while Father Peterson grew grimmer and grimmer, Juoni & bride grew paler and weaker. The band grew larger, jumped to 40, doubled overnight. To the horns, tin pans, boilers, drums,, hoops, hammers, fiddles, were added saxophones, beer trays, cow bells, circular saws. Father Peterson...
...Mad-eyed, bristle-lipped Adolf Hitler was not at last week's party in person, but with other Nationalist chiefs he signed a telegram to Chancellor Brüning: "The entire national opposition calls attention, in all due form, to the fact that on the basis of its fundamental principles, it will not consider as legally obligatory on itself any fresh obligations which may be assumed toward France." Schmitz. Back from London came Brüning with nothing lost, little accomplished. Mindful of the Erzberger warning, he slipped off the train at a Berlin suburban station early...