Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hence this film, a reworking of the essentials of Allene Corliss' Summer Lightning (cloudbursts & all) aims soberly at the heart where most other cinemakers would aim at the funny bone. Whether the box offices will consider Producer Wanger as nifty a batter as Willie Keeler is another matter. Few Hollywood producers dare strike whimsical notes on the polymorphism of the ant, the physical advantage the paramecium holds over the amoeba. But in the capable hands of Henry Fonda & Joan Bennett, top Wanger stars, and an able cast, / Met My Love A gain's invertebrate allegories, its academic...
Radio listeners in the U. S. heard gibberish of this sort one day last week, pronounced in a queer, blurred, atonal voice like that of a person who has been stone deaf since birth. As a matter of fact the words, which came from London, were not spoken by a human being at all but were uttered by an apparatus in the hands of Sir Richard Paget, 69-year-old barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician, who clings to the old British tradition that well-disposed people of the aristocracy should take an interest in the arts and sciences...
...matter is consistently more vile...
...poet appends an incomprehensible commentating clause. Sentence (4) is a compression of the defects of the "Letters" at large. Sordid subjects, prevalent among social novelists are ridiculed; a digression is made on obscurity; this obscurity is commented on; and the sentence lamely concludes declaring that one must ponder whether matter or style is more vile. Artistically the word "vices" is wishful and unproven; Mr. Hillyer's couplets have not made tangible that confusion is a vice and what he actually means is: "Their only consistency is inconsistency." The word "except" is grammatically unsupported, and "consistently" is a filler elbowishly attempting...
...wife gets arrested for walking into a woman's wash room in a hotel. The wife has to tell the husband that he's going to have a baby. Similar situations of varying degrees of crudity and subtlety, with a preponderance of the former, make up the subject-matter...