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Alice Faye, meanwhile, is Jack's blond angel who also warbles on occasion. The figure and the smile are still there. Patsy Kelly, as Winchell's girl Friday, continues to "knock 'em cold". Nod Sparks, judging from his performance in this picture, will continue to be seen on the screen for a long time, if he doesn't swallow his cigar first...

Author: By W. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/23/1937 | See Source »

...looking very solemn and very fit in spite of having celebrated his 75th birthday the day before, cast hardly a glance at his jam-packed courtroom as he took his seat. With a rustling of robes his Associates joined him. The Chief Justice, turning his head, gave a brief nod toward the right extremity of the bench. Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts, end man of the Court, took up a manuscript and began to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Four 5-4; One 9-0 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...electricity distributed by Bond & Share's multitudinous subsidiaries were conducted across State lines. He mentioned the inability of State power commissions to deal with utilities operating within their territories but not legally subject to their jurisdiction. Said he, with a nod to Judge Mack's known sentiments on monopoly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bond & Share Defense | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...cinema favorite. Carrie Snyder, as impersonated with enormous gusto and skill by Actress Gladys George, famed for her Broadway success in Personal Appearance, rates with the noblest of them all. If intelligence counts, Carrie is better than Madelon Claudet, who sank to scrubbing floors; she certainly deserves the nod over Madame X, who forfeited her own flesh and blood. The rating of Valiant is the Word for Carrie against other noble-prostitute pictures is equally favorable. Adapted from Barry Benefield's novel, astutely directed by Wesley Ruggles, it is a slick, high-powered old-school tearjerker, guaranteed to please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 19, 1936 | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

...Elizabeth the Queen, in 1933 Mary of Scotland. Both Your Houses won the Politzer prize. A month of so ago his friendly enemies, the New York critics, awarded him a plaque for having written Winter set, the best American play of 1935-36, with a friendly nod for the excellent of his Valley Forge and Night Over Taos of previous years. By writing in a loose yet strong verse, Maxwell Anderson, Stanford, M. A., preserves something of the scholarly air taste and training have led him to cherish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Honored by Critics | 5/15/1936 | See Source »

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