Word: misses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...routine different every day but every day the same. Might be shoes to tap instead of suit to press, might be tickets for French movies instead of Dartmouth game. Might even get up in time for nine o'clock and then miss twelve to eat an early lunch. The stretch from eight to one is sometimes too much for the Vagabond. Might be cocktails before dinner and might not. It's all the same and before long it's all over. Somehow it never seems like wasted time...
...hours later 20,000 people seated in the stands of the State Fair Grounds heard Miss Agnes Samuelson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, introduce Alf Landon. The candidate however was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly great spotlights sought out the west gate of the race track. Riding down the beam came Alf Landon in the tonneau of his car, waving to the crowd. In a moment he was on the platform. When a five-minute demonstration had subsided he began...
...Muriel Flood (Miss Bankhead) is alternately berated and praised by her hard-boiled and single-minded manager (Clay Clement), is tirelessly pursued by a stodgy suitor from her home town. The sympathy with which she receives his proposals of marriage is discouraged by the manager, by the acrid philosophizing of a fellow trouper (Ann Andrews) and the appearance of a more appealing admirer (Phillip Reed). Although she achieves success in Manhattan, she seems perfectly willing to give up her career to marry this charmer until he is exposed as an actress-chasing cad with a concealed wife & child. When...
...deadweight and keep her from taking up with a live possibility. The rival's husband is a stodgy jurist who spends his time writing minority decisions and listening to the Woops radio hour, but he is endeared to the public by the possession of a weak stomach. Anyway, Miss Cowl is forced to spend most of play in frantic and comical efforts to break the rising momentum to which she gave the first push...
...knows that the right man will have to win, if only to suppress the tragedienne in Miss Cowl that occasionally begins to crop out. But in general her acting is perfectly attuned to the mood of the play, and it is the way that she and her excellent support pronounce the Kaufman lines that is largely responsible for their success. The actors put the audience in a laughing disposition, which happily manages to tide one over the many barren stretches between the brilliant cracks...