Word: sadly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best talent in the show is droll Will Mahoney. With a hammer on each shoe and a sad expression on his face he makes music by dancing on a giant xylophone? the ''Mahoneyphone.'' Chicago theatre-goers saw this act tried out last year in Earl Carroll's Sketchbook...
...keep harping on the sad plight of our neighbor country...
...Sad-eyed Jean Tourenq has been an employe of the Treasury for 28 of his 46 years. During the War he served in the trenches and won two citations for gallantry in action. He also won a new assertiveness. Out of the trenches, Jean Tourenq was made a tax collector, 12th class. He had political ambitions. Taxgatherer Jean Tourenq advertised himself as "The Taxpayer's Friend," and every taxpayer who called with a list of complaints found Jean Tourenq eager to join a duet on the evils of the Government...
...Spain was dry. Into dusty Lorca in southern Murcia marched a raggle-taggle collection of 2,000 farm laborers from the mountain villages of Abiles, Dona Ines, La Paca. Some came in carts, some swung their brown heels against the moldy sides of sad-eyed donkeys, but most were on foot, faint from hunger. They had come to Lorca to live. Not for seven years, said the spokesman, had a drop of rain fallen on Abiles, Dona Ines, or La Paca...
...Girl is flippantly human, sad with out being solemn or more than pardonably sentimental. When the girl (Sally Eilers) falls in love with the salesman, she reveals the state of her emotions by saying "Gee, but you're a funny guy!" Other good shots: Sally Eilers, feeling so guilty because she is going to have a baby that she cannot get excited over a new apartment; James Dunn, also feeling guilty about the baby, trying to persuade an expensive doctor to attend his wife...