Word: rimplegars
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Three Cornered Moon," the other film at the University, is unimportant whimsy, but amusing. The title is puzzling until you discover that it is a stock whose fluctuation upsets the Dimplegar family which resides in Brooklyn. When the Rimplegars had money, they were mad. Poverty sobers them; the final scene of the movie shows the Rimplegar boys piling-on their sister, Elizabeth, and her flance, Mary Boland takes the part of the stupid mother in the family who finds life simple and amusing. As usual Miss Boland makes the most of her part. Claudette Colbert, Richard Arlen, and Hardie Albright...
Three-Cornered Moon by Gertrude Tonkonogy; Richard Aldrich de Liagre, producers). Feyest of the Rimplegars of Brooklyn is Mother Rimplegar (Cecilia Loftus), who is generally attired in a Mother Hubbard, with a huge towel wrapped about her silly head. Absentmindedly she gives all her money to someone whose name she believes to be Brown. It is invested for her in a stockmarket margin account, thereby impoverishing her. Her moonstruck brood has to go to work or starve, which they nearly do. The youngest becomes a swimming instructor. Another applies himself to his law studies. Interrupted in the midst of naive...
...Three-Cornered Moon is even more erratic than the first two. The brother passes his examination. The novelist is dismissed. While lunatic panic sweeps through the house Elizabeth and her businesslike sweetheart settle themselves on the stairway for a little lovemaking. It is 6 a. m. Mother Rimplegar wistfully wanders in mending...
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