Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene in Shanghai's International Settlement, every effort to dissuade the Japanese from celebrating their victory with a boastful parade was made, meanwhile, by British Brigadier Alexander Telfer-Smollett and the U. S. Marines' Brigadier General John C. Beaumont. After they had twice protested in vain to the Japanese, a high U. S. official, lacking in Shanghai the detached perspective of London, cried: "If the Chinese fire a single shot, God knows what will happen! To hold such a procession at such a time is to invite disaster...
...some occasions, such as a scene in which they bribe the dean of the college to keep the coach and let them play on the team, they are actually amusing, In many of their acts they become tiresome, vulgar, and maudlin. When one appears without his pants, it may be funny the first time, but not the second, or the third; and "Life Begins at College" is not even their third vehicle...
...feature, Nero Wolfe returns with Archy Goodwin in "The League of Frightened Men," unsatisfactory as so many mystery films are because the identity of the villain is not proved until the final scene, because almost any of a number of characters might have been selected by detective Walter Connolly instead of the one whom he did select...
...trio trip into the magic mirror room, become stumpy, stilted, wide & narrow by turns. The climax is a mirror that clips them off, leaving only disembodied dancing legs. Reginald Gardiner, whose stage repertory includes imitations of ugly wallpaper, effeminate French railway trains, weltering bell buoys, contributes one soul-bursting scene as an aria-minded butler tossing inhibition to the wood winds and singing a tenor solo from the opera Martha...
...sake of discipline, and then invites them over for Sunday dinner. He seasons his great portion of kindliness and human understanding with a splendid vein of gruffness and stingless sarcasm. He manages to preserve enough austerity to keep up the discipline until three females appear on the scene; the sister of the woman, now dead, whom he should have married, and that woman's three daughters, aged twenty, eighteen, and fourteen. Then the old sentimental story of ordered bachelorhood's being shot to pieces by arch femininity is once more retold, with delightful complications...