Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plasters opulent prettiness, vociferous songs and an assortment of plot cliches all over David Belasco's ancient yarn about the mad, bad days in early California. Walter Pidgeon, sheriff of Cloudy Mountain, and Bandit Chief Nelson Eddy are rivals for Jeanette MacDonald, pastel-tinted proprietress of the Polka Saloon. Eddy's dimples, wavy hair and roly-poly pinkness satisfy the popular idea of a rakehell bad man about as well as they did that of a West Point football player in Rosalie. Miss MacDonald's concession to her role is a rolling walk and belligerent...
...alcohol's effects. Two months ago Drs. Waddell & Haag submitted their report to the State Board of Education, which warmly endorsed the work, sent it to the General Assembly for approval as a textbook. In no time at all the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Anti-Saloon League and Virginia's churches had raced to Richmond to raise a clamor in the legislative halls...
Matt Mann, son of an English saloon keeper, learned to swim in the dirty streams below the woolen mills at Leeds, where the water dyed him blue one day, red the next. At 8 he was junior swimming champion of England, at 22 he went to the U. S. on a professional barnstorming tour. Robert Kiphuth was born & bred in upstate New York, took all his exercise on land. At 22 he was a punctilious instructor in physical education at Yale...
Throughout the picture the acting is excellent. Miss Faye is enchanting as Belle Fawcett, a sort of nineteenth century chorus girl. Mr. Power is surprisingly modern and very real as a combination politician and saloon-keeper, and Mr. Ameche, in a simpler part, is satisfactory. "In Old Chicago" is well acted, masterfully directed, and provides first-rate entertainment...
...Brown) into the arms of Gretchen, the house girl (June Storey), to settle the future of the youngest O'Leary. The eldest. Jack (Don Ameche), becomes a lawyer with lofty principles, low income. Dion (Tyrone Power), heir to the blarneying ways of his late father, opens a gilded saloon, maneuvers away from Political Boss Gil Warren (Brian Donlevy) his treacle-toned lady, Belle Fawcett (Alice Faye), and his control of votes in the Patch. When these votes elect honest Brother Jack mayor, Dion expects to have things all his own way. Just after he discovers that Jack...