Word: ritz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...RITZ-Mme Marie Ritz-Lippincott...
...Cesar Ritz was a Swiss peasant who at 17 became a waiter in a Paris restaurant. Fifteen years later he was managing the most luxurious hotels in Europe. By the 90s when the Hotel Ritz opened in Paris, he had made himself a Pied Piper to royalty and the international upper crust, and had given the world the adjective "ritzy." But for most readers the big news in his 70-year-old widow's biography will be that he really existed...
...vocal eccentricities of Ethel Merman and the antics of the Ritz Brothers, now a bit frayed about the edges, are the chief assets of "Straight, Place and Show," which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan. On the debit side are a great deal of fake photography, a lack of any dialogue and the galling fact that Miss Merman loses her man to Phyllis Brooks. The race track farce, similar in many ways to the Marx Brothers' "Day at the Races," reaches hilarious heights only in three or four sequences in which the Messrs. Ritz hold the screen alone...
Straight, Place and Show (Twentieth Century-Fox) exhibits the Ritz Brothers up to their customary tricks: jabbering at each other in unintelligible shouts or whispers, making faces, screeching into telephones, executing Russian dances in cowboy costumes, worrying, ringing bells, riding horseback forward and backward, crawling on all fours and swinging from the limbs of trees. Naturally, in a picture which contains the Ritzes, there is very little room left for a story. In Straight, Place and Show, Damon Runyon's and Irving Caesar's fairly conventional fable about a young man (Richard Arlen), a young girl (Phyllis Brooks...
Last fortnight, at the second-run Ritz Theatre in Los Angeles, audiences chuckled good-naturedly at Producer Buell's novelty horse opera, but only once did they really howl : when three-foot-nine Hero Billy Curtis, pursuing three-foot-nine villain Little Billy, galloped off on a black pony, was soon scooting along on a white pony, finished the chase on the black. Trouble with The Terror of Tiny Town, Producer Buell was soon to realize, was that without a few normal-sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell...