Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great surprise when White House Messenger Latta trotted into the Capitol at 2 o'clock that same day with a Presidential document under his arm, trotted out again. What was surprising was that the Roosevelt message should be held back for more than two hours until Senator Pat Harrison could get the Social Security Bill through the Senate (see p. 10). Then Congressmen, quite ignorant of the President's intentions, settled back to hear what he might have...
...been shot, battered and mummified. When Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) arrives on the scene, he promptly outlines his methods with a proverb: "Insignificant molehill sometimes more worthy of notice than conspicuous mountain." Aided by a dusky retainer and the fiance of the deceased archeologist's lovely daughter (Pat Paterson), he sets about selecting the guilty party from a group of suspects that include an Egyptian butler, a bad-tempered doctor, a druggist, an amiable police chief (Paul Porcasi), a solemn professor, and the archeologist's half-wild...
...unnecessary to analyze the failure of the film--it's just flat. Miss Del Rio is highly decorative but will never score a success in a film which offers her no support--she can't act and she needs help from somebody who can. Pat O'Brien is not this somebody...
Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien) arrives in China seriously possessed of the ideals inculcated by the company's training school. When he invents a cheap lamp which will make coolies buy more oil, he hands a drawing of it to his boss (Arthur Byron). When his fiancee jilts him, he marries the first presentable girl (Josephine Hutchinson) he meets in Shanghai because to return to his post single might cause him to look ridiculous and thus diminish his value to the company. Even when, as a reward for years of faithful service, his boss receives a humiliating demotion...
When absentmindedly scrawling, he was capable of making a drawing that was definitely bad as well as careless. He never developed a pat technique, always forced his style to follow his understanding of the facts. From first to last the two pictures that his hand absentmindedly formed first were of a pretty boy and of an old soldier with a nutcracker profile...