Word: searchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bull's-eye No. 1 was Stanley and Livingstone (Twentieth Century-Fox), a $2,200,000 version of what the New York Herald's James Gordon Bennett Jr. regarded as the greatest news story of all time: the search for vanished British Missionary David Livingstone by the Floyd Gibbons of his age, Mr. Bennett's Henry Morton Stanley. To make the film, Producer Darryl Zanuck sent Mrs. Osa Johnson and a crew of technicians and extras to Africa for six months, had them assemble an authentic, awe-inspiring record of a savage country and people that would...
Suspecting more than water in the sender's room, the radio agencies ashore reported the whole business to the Federal Communications Commission, which got on the job late, but with the meagre direction finder information available, at week's end had narrowed down its search for the S O S sender to the vicinity of Tampa Bay. Possible penalty: $10,000 fine, two years in jail...
...last week. His An Index to English* intended "to answer some common questions about English usage and style," makes no bones about being colloquial, passes as good usage in spoken English such a word as enthuse, such an expression as it's me, such pronunciations as ree'-search and ex-qui'-site. Professor Perrin thinks Americans had better stick to American words and not fool around with such tony Gallicisms as chic, enceinte and demimonde. Some foreign terms are handy: "Hors d'oeuvre is a useful word and not difficult to say, but it looks conspicuously...
Winter Carnival (United Artists-Walter Wanger). Ann Sheridan, born Clara Lou Sheridan in Dallas, Tex. 24 years ago, left college for Hollywood when she won a Paramount "Search for Beauty" contest in her neighborhood in 1933. After two years on the Paramount payroll, during which she failed to set any celluloid on fire, she was dropped, spent a year looking for a job. Warner Bros, put her under contract in 1936. Last year the Warners, envious with the rest of Hollywood of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's glamorous Hedy Lamarr, started circulating glamorous photographs of Ann Sheridan, her red hair...
...accused of killing his wife because he loves another, she falls in love with Marshall, a juror. As San Francisco saw Ladies and Gentlemen, the final curtain brought renunciation. Instead of going away with the secretary, the architect made ready to send his son to Europe, "in search of my lost youth." But the play had a bad case of third-act anemia, for which the authors last week were preparing transfusions. Ladies and Gentlemen pleased San Francisco, may make good box-office on Broadway because of: 1) its stars, 2) its Hecht-MacArthur gags. Sample (by a frequently-pregnant...