Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...responsible job of seeing tax bills through, the Senate rested on the patient, sloping shoulders of prosy Reed Smoot, who stood on the floor swinging columns of statistics, ponderously trying to hit the gadflies of the opposition, one of whom, with the most biting sting of all, was Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Last week Senator Smoot was in far off Utah serving as a pillar of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.* And Pat Harrison, no longer cast as a gadfly, had to play the heavy, as Chairman of the Finance Committee...
Gambling Lady (Warner). The heroine of this picture is a talented professional gambler named Lady Lee (Barbara Stanwyck). She plays cards honestly but she always wins. Her social life is even more improbable. When her father dies she refuses, though penniless, to marry a jolly but unscrupulous bookmaker (Pat O'Brien). When she meets a callow socialite named Garry Madison (Joel McCrea), she falls in love with him immediately and marries him soon afterward...
...companion picture has Joan Blondrell acting with the Gable like Pat O'Brien in "I've got your Number." Renors go rather to Mr. O'Brien in "I've got your Number." Renors go rather to Mr. O'Brien than to Miss Blondell. The picture is fast-moving, amusing, and has its romantic moments...
...doing. His director always addresses him as Mr. Arliss. He dresses in narrow trousers and a high stiff collar, carries change in a purse. Because he and his wife once saw some cattle starving in a drought, Arliss is a vegetarian. His theory ("I eat nothing I can pat") puts fish on his menu. He keeps an elaborate research library to help him with costume parts. He rehearses privately for two weeks before every picture, takes his wife's advice about makeup. She plays in his pictures only when, as in Rothschild, she can appear as his devoted wife...
...Yale is a good college. Rudy Vallee went there, you know. And he is sure a swell fellow, even though he does have trouble with his wives." So says Pat Campbell (pronounced Camel), doorman of the British Empire Building at New York's Radio City. "I like Princeton too; who was it that went there? Oh yes, Woodrow Wilson...