Word: robinson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...double bill is excellent for those who have not yet seen "A Slight Case of Murder," now in its second run. Full of uproariously funny murders, lovable gangsters, Damon Runyon's English, and bad, bad beer, this finds Edward G. Robinson at his best...
Backs: D. W. Bensley '40, Tom Boulger '40, Bob Burnett '39, Myron Cohen '39, Bill Coleman '40, Ace Cordingly '40, Frazer Curtis '40, James Devine '40, Phil Downes '40, Austie Harding '39, Larry Johnson '39, Ray Jones '39, Torbie MacDonald '40, Ed Robinson '40, Art Row '40, Ernie Sargent '40, and James Buslong...
Approaching the awkward age, Shirley is not quite so dewy as she used to be. Paced by the dark veteran, Bill Robinson, through two simple tap routines, one to a pleasing tune called Toy Trumpet, she seems something more than a doll, something less than a little girl. Her singing, almost free now of the lilting lisp that has three times made her No. 1 Oh-&-Ah cinema champion (TIME, Jan. 3), sounds much like that of any little Sunday-morning radio aspirant...
Accepting nothing but the title of Kate Douglas Wiggin's pig-tailed story, "Rebecca" makes a brave effort to amuse. Surrounded by pleasant people (Gloria Stuart, Randolph Scott, Bill Robinson, Slim Summerville), Miss Temple gives a mature and finished performance within a plot that seems somewhat septuagenarian. It is about Little Miss America, her starched Aunt Miranda, and a vigorous radio executive, and it ends in music...
...stage show, featuring the fifty-nine-year-old Bill Robinson, grandest tap-dancer of them all, is worth...