Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calculated by its procedures to make a lot of money, "After the Test Pilot", otherwise known as "Too Hot to Handle", will make a lot of money. This is primarily because it duos Mr. Gable and Miss Loy, who once again give sterling performances of the devil-may-care variety. This is also because, in its own right, it is an amusing, a genuinely exciting picture. The plot, which concerns an ace newsreel cameraman who can fake the best pictures in the trade, and a round-the-world aviatrix who wishes to hunt for her lost brother in the Amazon...
...secretly to Germany to get some of her father's manuscripts. Last year she arrived in Manhattan, applied for U.S. citizenship. Today she is engaged in the same trade as her father. Her angriest book, School for Barbarians, with a preface by her father, was published last week.* Miss Mann's book is about Germany's children. Other investigators have reported what has happened under the Nazis to Germany's once-great educational system but none has reported so scathingly as Erika Mann what has happened to Germany's youngsters. Her sensational but thoroughly documented...
...Miss Pickford did not advocate Lysistrata's classic method...
...antics of the Ritz Brothers, now a bit frayed about the edges, are the chief assets of "Straight, Place and Show," which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan. On the debit side are a great deal of fake photography, a lack of any dialogue and the galling fact that Miss Merman loses her man to Phyllis Brooks. The race track farce, similar in many ways to the Marx Brothers' "Day at the Races," reaches hilarious heights only in three or four sequences in which the Messrs. Ritz hold the screen alone...