Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shrapnel Swing." In San Francisco arrived last week Shanghai's most exuberant refugee, Miss Therese Rudolph, who says she went unscathed through the first Japanese bombing of the International Settlement (TIME, Aug. 23), has now translated the emotions she experienced into a hot-cha-cha routine, the "Shrapnel Swing" (see cut). In Shanghai last week the 2,527th case of cholera was certified in the International Settlement alone, with 563 victims of cholera dead and doctors vaccinating night and day in efforts to head off an epidemic of smallpox. Conditions were so appalling that Japanese insisted on sterilizing...
Columbia and Army scored three touchdowns apiece. In such a situation to miss one kick for extra point may mean defeat. Columbia missed three. Only satisfaction for Columbia was possession of the country's Player-of-the-Week, Sid Luckman, who completed 18 passes, two for touchdowns, ran back a kickoff for a third. Score...
...Topper" with Cary Grant, Constance Bennett and Roland Young tells the story of two amusing reprobates who acquire the rather disconcerting habit of shuffling off this mortal coil at will. Mr. Grant and Miss Bennett resolve to do one good deed before they knock at the pearly gates, deciding to transform Mr. Young, America's foremost Babbit into America's number one play-boy. Combining the photographic tricks of "The Invisible Man" with a new freshness entirely its own, the film rates as tops in humor; the only adverse criticism is that perhaps "Topper" is a little too much...
...second film is "Love Under Fire" featuring Lorotta Young and Don Ameche. Mr. Ameche's head appears to be queerly warped, but the delightful Miss Young doesn't seem to mind...
...pretty hard to pass judgment on a picture such as this. The opening seenen of bayonet technique were amusing to the audience when in reality they were far more horrible in their subtlety than the more obvious scenes of death and destruction which make audiences shudder. Miss George is almost over-sincere and shows her age, Mr. Tracy does as well as the script allows him, and though his portrayal seems a bit of a patch-work, it is not his fault. Furthermore, the film falls a little flat in its climax...