Word: saloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...office poison" is a charge not likely to be hurled again at Marlene Dietrich now that she has stopped wandering about the desert, strewn with ethereal white veils, and has made the transition to saloon hostess in the good old American Wild West. "Destry Rides Again," her latest vehicle, presents her in a rough and tumble burlesque of the dime quickies of the twenties. Dietrich, it will be generally conceded, has certain natural qualifications for the job of combination Mac West and Alice Faye: Hollywood has provided a script in the right mood; and the result is a motion picture...
Success of "Destry Rides Again" is all the more remarkable when one considers that its thesis is the superiority of peaceful methods over violence. Into a wide open town, with its typical saloon characters, comes James Stewart, or Thomas Jefferson Destry, whose father was killed in the course of sherifling a similar frontier town. He believes in law and order, but not in coercion: and "no-gun Destry," as the hombres come to call him, talks the crooks into prison and the town into somnolence. His adventures, except for a few moments of sentimental seriousness, constitute a picture which must...
...found myself on my feet for the first time in eight weeks, and they gave beneath me and I fell flat on my face, half in and half out of the saloon. My life belt was under my chair and I put it on from ground level...
...would replenish in New Zealand; her two doctors treated almost a quarter of the population for ailments, ranging from scratches to scurvy; her machinists and radio operators went over the island's radio receiver. Biggest treat of all: a long cinema program in the North Star's saloon. The audience, most of whom had never seen films before, cried out in amazement at shots of Manhattan. Next day, when the North Star's forward donkeys upped anchor and the screws began to turn, the natives stood up in their longboats and with tears in their eyes sang...