Word: moonlight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week there was something like pandemonium in Rapid City, S. Dak. Sirens screamed; storekeepers thrust exuberant signs in windows; offices closed early. By midnight most of Rapid City and the surrounding countryside had trekked southwest to the rim of Moonlight Valley, a woodsy pockmark in the Black Hills. There a hushed throng of 50,000 stared down into a floodlit bowl as Explorer II, latest & greatest stratosphere balloon, was made ready for its first ascent. Year ago Explorer I, latest & greatest of its day, had lurched reluctantly skyward from the same natural amphitheatre near Rapid City...
...comes in draped around a lady's neck like a fur piece and is, thereafter, in a state of almost continual collapse. Abraham Lincoln is master of ceremonies in a scene on the banks of the Potomac in 1865 which features a uniformed tenor singing "There's Moonlight in a Kiss" to a girl in crinoline. When President McKinley manifests an interest in Hawaiian music, one Bert Lynn favors with some plaintive strumming on his patented device known as the Vibrolynn...
...Live Tonight," with Tullio Carminati and Lilian Harvey, is one of those cinemas which strive to be charming. Diffused lighting, yachts, Monte Carlo, the Riviera in the moonlight, and a champagne supper for two--all these ingredients achieve a sort of Midsummer Nights Dream atmosphere. Carminati, rich and cynical, complains that love is an ephemeral flower, but that, of course, is before he meets Miss Harvey. Also on the program is a very interesting installment of the "March of Time," including a Russian chapter of unusual brilliance...
...faculty without so much as starting the Red-hunt. Last week the committee was waiting for a new appropriation when a group of undergraduate athletes and fraternity men became annoyed at charges of campus radicalism. Breaking up a meeting of the pinko League for Industrial Democracy one warm, moonlight night, they grabbed the leaders, dragged them down to Lake Mendota. "For God's sake, fellows," remonstrated a professor who happened upon the scene, "think of the University." Plop! Plop! Plop! Into chilly Lake Mendota went three howling Leaguers...
...Glendon (Henry Hull) is a respectable botanist. On moonlight nights, unless he gets his mariphasa, he turns into a wolfish Mr. Hyde, does his best to strangle his handsome and devoted wife (Valerie Hobson). These habits do not seriously endanger his career until another werewolf (Warner Oland) who has run out of mariphasa flowers tries to steal Dr. Glendon's last blossom. The result is a fight between the two and the liveliest sequence in the picture when Dr. Glendon is shot by a pistol bullet while chasing his wife about their house in an effort to bite...