Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Refusing to see newshawks, Prisoner MacCracken rested on a prepared statement which vigorously protested his innocence, laid full responsibility for permitting destruction of the papers on his partner, Frederic P. Lee. In the Senate, Vermont's Republican Warren Robinson Austin almost started a party fight by taking up MacCracken's protest. In the House, Texas' voluble William Doddridge McFarlane introduced a resolution demanding that Prisoner MacCracken either resign from the Government's National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or be impeached...
...best, was called Outdoor Stage, Robinson, France and showed, in the yellow glow of footlights under the night sky, an attractive concert singer in a bustle...
...aunt when she meets Killer Mannion; Mannion's astute revenge on a rival gangster who mistakes him for Jones-are brilliantly used to make the doings of little Jones the more strange, heroic, touching and preposterous. In his dual rôle, as Jones and Mannion, Edward G. Robinson gives his best performance since Little Caesar. Good shot: the mean, mysterious little man (Donald Meek) who first tells the police to arrest Jones, trying to collect the reward for capturing Mannion...
...dressed up in flounces and high-button boots for this picture, she steps into a rôle cut down to her size with all the assurance of the capable actress she is. She reviews a regiment which has made her honorary colonel; tap dances with Bill Robinson; plays soldier with Lionel Barrymore; is the comfort of her mother's lonely life (Evelyn Venable) and even dresses up in Civil War hoopskirts to render "Love's Young Dream" on the harp...
...Pied-Piper (Huey Long) tootling on a penny whistle," all the while mixing his idioms in a grandiloquent style that is the despair of professional comedians. The newspapers also provide farcial tilts, with the highly electric crackles of the buffoon from Louisiana alternating with the heavy artillery of Senator Robinson. The wonder is that the professional comedians don't unionize in an attempt to preserve their interests and send a lobby to Congress...