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Besides the performance of Miss Shearer the other gratifying aspect of the movie is the fact that Robert Montgomery has finally arrived to the point where he has really clever lines to say and not the trite mush that he has had to mutter in the last several movies that he has appeared in. It is true that he gets off one, "Loosen up, little girl" or "Relax. baby, relax" but that can be excused on the grounds that he has been so accustomed to saying those things in the past that he had to utter just...

Author: By O. E. F., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/30/1930 | See Source »

With a flourish the Chambrun Galleries invited the New York art world last week to a show proudly titled "Les Trente, a representative showing of the work of 30 modern French painters." The modern French painters bore such disturbingly un-French names as Foujita, Friesz, Kvapil, Carlu, Mutter, Hecht, Van Dongen, but apart from the accident of birth the subtitle was justified. These artists have not only made France their physical and spiritual home, but their training, their technique, their outlook, is as Parisian as a bottle of Pernod. One other thing was noticeable: Les Trente were completely modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Les Trente | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...classes of inhabitants, neither of which is at all inclined to be appreciative of his efforts to provide them with such stray bits of enlightment as may still be found after the beginning of the Reading Period. On the one side there is a harried group who mutter something about "Divisionals" and hurry back to their books. At the other extreme are those whose academic engagements have been reduced to a minimum and who do not even look up from their road-maps and time-tables at the Vagabond's approach. Persona non grata as he may be, the Vagabond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Blue butter, a'stutter, a'flutter, no mutter, no matter, no clatter, that picture, that stricture gives rise, not wisely but unwisely, to the crack, to the smack, fee-fi-io-flack, It's a nose, it's a Nose, it's a NOSE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Some stayed to mutter about a Booth promise broken. From the Booth camp had come word the previous day that no legal action would be taken. Some went away with the feeling of having been tricked into impotency. Lieutenant Commissioner Haines went into the adjoining room, lay down, and, in the torture of a sudden attack of acute indigestion, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death & Salvation | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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