Word: mirrored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee was told that on May 15 Richard B. Bevier had come to Mr. Howe with an introductory letter from Basil O'Connor, the President's one-time law partner. After inspecting Mr. Bevier's toilet kits (comb, toothbrush, soap, toothpaste, toothbrush holder, brush. soap box, mirror, shaving cream, razor, razor blades), Secretary Howe asked Budget Director Douglas to come over and have a look at them. Director Douglas was busy, sent a subordinate named Lowery. Instructing Lowery to investigate the cost and quality of the product as compared with the kits the Army was already issuing...
...chorus in triple-decked hoop skirts carrying phosphorescent violins. The stage presently darkens so that the violins appear to float about under their own power, finally waltz themselves into the outline of an immense bull fiddle. Good shot: Guy Kibbee's alarm when he looks in a mirror and detects a resemblance between his own face and that of a chorus girl's Pekinese, which he is holding under his arm. The Nuisance (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). No actor in Hollywood is more adept than Lee Tracy at characterizations of likable rogues. This time he is an ambulance chasing...
When all had gone, the old man went over to the washstand. In his hand flashed a cheap little butcher knife. The men outside the door heard him groan. Bursting in, they could see his face in the mirror, contorted with pain. He was still trying to push the knife through his ribs...
...Kiss Before the Mirror (Universal) is a thoughtful little drama based on the premise that you should think twice before you give your wife a kiss while she is at her dressing table. Two men try it in this picture. Both fare badly. Dr. Bernstoff (Paul Lukas) suspects from Mrs. Bernstoff's indifference that she is preparing for a rendezvous. When his suspicions are verified, he kills her, then tells the whole story to his old friend and lawyer Dr. Paul Held (Frank Morgan). Dr. Held wastes no time kissing Mrs. Held (Nancy Carroll) under the same circumstances...
Adapted from a Hungarian comedy by Ladislaus Fodor, directed by James Whale, The Kiss Before the Mirror has a smooth surface, good acting and a compactly organized, if tricky, story. It lacks action and emphasis. Good shot: Dr. Held listening with growing interest to his wife's tirade at him for mussing her hair. The Barbarian (M e t r o-Goldwyn- Mayer) contains a personage whose type used to be almost as important in the cinema as the cowboy whom he helped to supplant. He is a sheik wearing a romantic turban, bedsheets and a polite but hungry...