Word: reel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...didn't let anyone know. It was more fun than playing bridge or going to parties." For three hours a day she worked at piano and composition, presently had her score ready for Conductor Willem van Hoogsträten. She also composed a nocturne and an Irish reel, orchestrated a Beethoven Sonata. Smart, fiftyish, she sat in the floodlighted Stadium the night of its performance, wondered how the Polonaise would sound...
...about marrying a painter, with whom she next becomes intimate. Further obstacles to the wedding are provided by the painter's sister, a severely conventional socialite. When the model's first lover (Lew Cody, grown a trifle fat) reappears, the situation requires the obvious solution of sixth reel matrimony. The outmoded quandaries of The Common Law (derived from a novel which Robert William Chambers wrote in 1913) cause Joel McCrea to look slightly disgruntled as the painter, provide nice surroundings but mediocre dramatic material for Constance Bennett...
...alarming to Producer Castle have been produced only by Warner Bros, and Paramount. Paramount samples: a series entitled Movie Memories, comprising old newsreels, early shots of current stars, by courtesy of Liggett & Myers; My Merrie Oldsmobile, song cartoon; Jolt for General Germ, cartoon extolling Lysol. Warner Bros, samples: one-reel plays advertising Chesterfields; On the Slopes of the Andes, a coffee cultivation panorama to further Great Atlantic & Pacific grocery sales. Warner Bros, have contracted for a dozen or so more advertising shorts, Paramount for 50. Advertising films which cost advertisers $12,000 a reel, $40 a reprint, $5 per thousand...
...heartily recommend the various "short subjects", and the accompanying comedy. "Don't Bet on Women", featuring Jeannette MacDonald. And the news-reel...
...takeoff, Hubar slipped and his front legs crashed into one of those top rails no horse can take out and stay on his feet. Now Davis was taking off Sea Soldier's wraps and the lean horse stretched out on the flat three jumps from home and passed Reel Foot. The two horses converged at the water, and then the thing that happens so often when a tired horse is taking a bad jump happened to Sea Soldier and Reel Foot at the same time: the riders checked a little, the horses made rough, desperate lunges to carry...