Word: scoundrels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scoundrel" is subpoenaed for another appearance in Boston. Noel Coward breaks his brittle cracks on the skulls of his foils in the approved Cowardly manner, for the major part of the picture. Then, most touchingly, he demonstrates that even merry wags are subject to the moral law, and the need for affection, to lay their lonesome ghosts. This hybrid of persiflage and metaphysics shares the program with a melodious dainty called 'Invitation to a Dance". The struggles of Carl Maria Von Weber to rise in the musical world are presented somewhat drably, but the song is an ample lure, special...
...Lately A. T. & T. has been drawn deeper into cinema, advancing a total of $3,400,000 for production of such features as Moonlight and Pretzels, Dangerous Waters, Emperor Jones, The Scoundrel, His Double Life, Love Among the Skyscrapers. To Take A Chance Pictures Corp. A. T. & T. loaned $100,000 for filming Take A Chance...
...critics outside Sacramento the efforts involved in getting Sutter's Gold on the screen seemed last week as misdirected as the celebration over its opening was unjustified. Hampered by a script that characterized its hero variously as paragon and scoundrel, pinchpenny and profligate, altruist and profiteer, without ever making him a human being, the best Producer Edmund Grainger, Director James Cruze and Actors Arnold, Lee Tracy and Binnie Barnes could offer the public was 85 minutes of dignified boredom, which suggested that the producers of Sutter's Gold had wearied of the performance before it began...
...glad to set down a few good things I heard; The Oath Bill can easily become a political tool instead of a patriotic one....Yet even, "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."...Especially it gives undue license and power to authorities to suspect and dismiss teachers....It puts all teachers under suspicion....It is a "nibble" at the Bill of Rights....Truth cannot be legislated...
...American . . . bent only on amassing a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses-whether these uses be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself, or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive idleness and gross debauchery, or to purchase some scoundrel of high social position, foreign or native, for his daughter...