Word: roles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inexplicable treatment in the Canadian Medical Association Journal last week, there may have been a direct relationship between ears and sex organs. Although the scientists cautiously refrained from stating that constitutional deafness is an endocrine disease, they did say that "sex hormone may still play a role in the physiology of hearing today...
...Egypt's premier crooner and actor. Once an unlettered tailor's assistant in Cairo, Crooner Abdul-Wahab has since amassed a fortune by composing tunes which were a hybrid of Oriental and Western music. He put the songs in screen romances and, with himself in the leading role, soon became the matinee idol of Cairo, Bagdad, Damascus, Jerusalem and outposts...
Only thing that gives the play distinction is Ethel Waters' playing of Hagar. In her first dramatic role the famed singer of blues and hotcha shames the play's bogus tear-jerking with her own deep and honest intensity. More moving than anything in the story are the fugitive looks of love and suffering that every so often cross Ethel Waters' plain, brown, human face...
Back on Broadway for the first time after six years in Hollywood, Franchot Tone-an original member of The Group Theatre-proved nimble in his gangster role, but too suave and lacking in guts...
...Zaza, directed by George Cukor, acted by Claudette Colbert and Herbert Marshall, and equipped with dialogue consisting principally of "Ah, zut!" conforms to tradition so perfectly that, presumably from force of long habit, censors even objected to the cancan dances. Climactic shot: Comedian Bert Lahr, playing a straight role for the first time in his career, as Zaza's vaudeville partner, conveying the scandalous news that he has seen her lover drinking chocolate with a lady not his mistress...