Word: menjou
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Between the two extremes of complete but magnificent ignorance and intense and concentrated knowledge hovers the average college student. When he attends the opera it is usually for one of several reasons; he is enrolled in Music 4; he has wearied of Menjou; he has sense of duty; or because there has been terrible mistake...
Serenade (Adolphe Menjou). It is curious that the cinema, an industry only recently become civilized, should already have produced the rarest and most delicate flower of decadent aristocracy, an example of supreme elegance. It would be unfair to say that Dandy Menjou is an actor as well as an example. All his roles are the same; he wears fine clothes to hide his scrawny shanks; he gets all his effects by raising one corner of his triangular mustaches, by flipping one hand in a small arc to indicate either the tremendous futility of life or his willingness to marry...
...Treasury Department; this is followed by an unsolicited list of the U. S. Senators who subscribe to your magazine ; next we have an advertisement for Christmas sales of TIME, sneaked in as answer to a correspondent; then, dear God, a letter saying that a ham actor (Adolphe Menjou) reads TIME, followed by what appears to be an anthology compiled by some forester in praise of one of your customary impertinences; then, mianmian, "no detail is too petty to try to print correctly;" then you order a subscriber to REREAD your "political spectrum," whatever that is; the last three letters...
...Carrier Menjou...
...this in Ralph Wilk's colyum, "A Little from 'Lots' " in the Film Daily: "Our Passing Show: Adolphe Menjou carrying a copy of TIME...