Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laughing Sinners was started six months ago, later scrapped and remade. As a result Joan Crawford, whose duty it is to portray the indecisions of the salesman's playmate, appears as a brunette in some sequences, a blonde in others. In almost all of them she acts well and makes her dilemma seem both plausible and pathetic. Actor Hamilton is a little too unctuous as the salesman. Actor Gable, hitherto an impersonator of hard-boiled characters, seems slightly puzzled to find himself banging a Salvation Army drum...
...blessed with a double title, "Mondays at 9" or "Pedagogues on Parade." The sketches of the aforementioned pedagogues, which have become familiarized to thousands of Lampoon readers in their appearance on the center spread pages of the humorous magazine, are the work of Pickhardt. In most cases they portray the salient topographical outlines of the professors subjected to treatment, as well as one or two prominent professorial characteristics inherent in the poseur...
...Education Association: "There has not been in the entire history of the United States an example of mismanagement and lack of vision so colossal and far-reaching in its consequences as our turning of the radio channels almost exclusively into commercial hands." Since, he said, both radio and cinema portray "the trivial, the sensual, the jazzy . . . we are in vastly greater danger as a people from New Yorkism than from Communism...
...part of Trixie, Producer Harris selected Ruth Gordon (Hotel Universe, The Violet). Miss Gordon is one of the few actresses who can portray the character of a loose young girl without being offensive...
...Wide Open Town" is disappointing. It does not nearly approach the gusto and vigor of his former work. Rather, it strikes one as being a carbon copy, slightly blurred at the edges, of "Singermann." The failure this time of the author to portray this particular phase of the American scene is primarily due of the American scene is primarily due to the besetting sin of his reliance on "local color." Mr. Brinig has grown up in the city he pictures, he knows its legends and its individuality at first hand--and he had done nothing more than photograph them...