Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...asking Miss Speare to speak, Mr. Hersey is continuing his policy of inviting prominent figures in the writing and acting professions to speak to his classes. Last year a "prize catch" was Martyn Green, noted performer of Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas for the D' Oyly Carte Company...
...authoress of Grace Moore's opus, "One Night of Love," and other pieces including "Dancers in the Dark" and "The Road to Needles," Miss Speare has spoken here before. Her subject today will be "Discovering Aristotle in Hollywood," a talk which is to be based on her experiences in writing at the California film colony...
...extra rehearsal, reportedly called because some cuts were to be made in the production which was considered too long. The diners, unaware of this, craned their necks to look at everyone who entered the hall and speculation was rife as to whether the chorine at one table was Miss Zorina...
...Fairbanks, who owns a freighter and a South Sea island and who "does what he does when he wants to do it," tries to convince Miss Dunne, highest star in the Broadway heavens, that she should shake the call of duty to her career and her family. His main hurdle lies in showing her what leeches and rodents are her family, which she keeps in antiques and good liquor. Success is his, by means of a rousing drunk, Hollywood's perennial ice-breaker, which occupies most of the picture...
...considerably above the usual comedy run. However, the dialogue is uninspired and labored, and at times merely insipid. Some of the funny situations are drawn out until the last tortured laugh is extorted from unhappy spectators, while other situations are simply not funny. Such a thing is deplorable, for Miss Dunne and Mr. Fairbanks are as engaging a pair as can be tracked down in many long moons of hunting on the Hollywood trail...