Word: reel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like many plays of its type, Double Harness has the major fault of trying to make an arresting problem out of a painfully apparent fallacy. Nonetheless, pleasant interiors, good clothes and two smooth performances by its principal actors help make it inoffensive comedy drama until the last reel. This, which has almost nothing to do with the rest of the plot, concerns a strange dinner party at the Fletchers. One by one the guests are called away by drunkenness or domestic emergencies. The cook fights with the butler. The guest of honor sits down alone with his hostess. When...
...size and color of the dorsal and pectoral fins, has a round, narrow, sharp beak, is more properly called a spearfish. Marlins roam the trop ical Atlantic waters, are also found off the coasts of California, Hawaii, Japan, the Antipodes. The largest fish ever caught with rod & reel was a New Zealand black marlin weighing 976 lb., hooked in 1926. The sport of catching swordfish on a hook instead of by harpoon is comparatively new. The sport of catching them off Montauk Point, L. I., and nearby Block Island is even newer, although broadbills are found the world over...
...with a Montauk captain costs $50. but you can take three or four others along and split the price. Tackle is provided, consisting usually of a 16-oz. rod, a reel the size of a coffee tin, some 1,200 ft. of No. 36 thread line, 15 ft. of copper leader. Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish. A fresh squid is sewed onto the hook and sometimes a wooden lure is trolled ahead of it to rouse the broadbill's interest. To take...
...musicomedy with one sound farce idea. All the men in the world die of a disease called "masculitis." Women hold the best jobs while a lady President heads the U. S. Government. Then a solitary male (Raul Roulien), thought to have died at the end of the second reel, reappears. He is captured by lady racketeers and held for auction, taken over by lady "Federal men'' who plan to preserve him as government property. A world conference finally disposes...
...rolling an eye at the department manager, arousing the lower nature of the cashier, finally having an affair with the vice president. The cashier shoots the vice president and himself, leaving Lily Powers to marry the president. Most spurious shot: Lily's change of heart in the last reel- when she has deserted her president-husband and started for Paris with most of the funds which he needs to save himself from jail...