Word: magic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sing as well as she can and Buddy Ebsen, her foil, has a good comedy voice considering he is also the No. 1 U. S. eccentric tap dancer. With Una Merkel and Sid Silvers clowning through the Cole Porter words and Eleanor Powell tapping out her specialized magic, the whole cast suddenly gives out the feeling that comes to a show when all hands are tops in their lines and happy with what they are doing. Plot is forgotten, the Christmas tree is spangled with dialog as amiably frivolous as artificial snow and lighted up with rows of handsome specialties...
...little as 50?, a collection of small Silurian fossils 65?. Princeton University recently ordered a cat skeleton, Columbia University 25 Ib. of lead ore, the University of Illinois 18 bullfrog skeletons. A man in Jamaica who had failed in business four times and felt the need of a magic talisman wrote for "the head of a white weasel." A medicine show proprietor asked for something that he could exhibit as human tapeworms, explaining that the egg noodles he had been using swelled and lost their shape. A woman wanted "a picture of all animals in the animal kingdom from protozone...
...rights to the play. Warners had backed the Manhattan production. But what to do with Oiwin? The cinema presented untold possibilities for expanding his talent as a poet and his powers to divine the speed of horses. Yet there lay danger. The slightest alteration might impair Oiwin's magic, hilariously tested at so many box offices...
...Even the magic word "Veritas", which adorns probably the only two official sundials in the University does not seem to suffice to keep them in the straight and narrow...
There is one moment of real magic when Larry is singing So Do I, best of the John Burke-Arthur Johnston ballads, in a dim courtyard, strumming his lute, while Patsy revolves around him in a grotesquely graceful, childish dance. Screenwriter Jo Swerling, however, quickly dropped development of the Pennies from Heaven idea. He set his characters to making a haunted house into a night club, then switched to a carnival background, then to an orphan asylum. The thread on which the latter episodes are strung consists of Susan Sprague's (Madge Evans) efforts to put Patsy...