Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merry-Go-Round of 1938 (Universal). If it had no other virtues to speak of, this skedaddling musicomedy would be worth mentioning for one fact alone: it brings to a wider audience Comic Bert Lahr's theory that only a barytone can chop a tree. It has other virtues...
That makeshift ward recently became a subject of scandal when Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association threatened to bring it to the attention of "the medical profession and the people of America." On a visit to it he had found 27 patients using ten three-quarter beds (two...
"Life" is the best-selling magazine, 80 copies going in less than an hour every week. "Look" comes second with 65 while the non-picture-books are way down the list, "Colliers" and the "Satevepost" selling about 40 each. Philip Morris is the most popular cigarette.
Although Labor's Non-Partisan League is today generally considered the political arm of C. I. O., the American Labor Party has managed to keep a foot in both of Labor's camps. Of the 250 unions affiliated with it, about 40% are A. F. of L. Executive...
Odets' characters are most forceful when they speak the salty idiom of the street, least effective when he hoists them on flights of unnatural rhetoric. Most idiomatic performers in Golden Boy were: Robert Lewis, as the flat-voiced, grasping fight promoter, Roman Bohnen, a typical shoestring manager, and Jules...