Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looking for a place in her Manhattan Civic Repertory company. Actress Le Gallienne dismissed her saying, "I can see your attitude toward the theatre is not sincere. . . . You are a frivolous little girl." Three years later, after a year with Universal Pictures, she was dismissed again, for lack of sex appeal. "I can't imagine any guy giving her a tumble," pronounced Carl ("Junior") Laemmle, 23-year-old Hollywood producer-genius...
...people disliked the old Robert Taylor (for one reason or another) but a lot more are going to dislike the new Robert Taylor. He is a big, virile fellow--courtesy of M. G. M.--with incredible athletic prowess, a fine disdain for the weaker sex. He carries his beauty with boyish modesty. And just to rouse the dormant nationalism in the breast of every true American, he has gone to England--courtesy of M. G. M.--and taken it by storm. "A Yank at Oxford," now at Loew's, is a domestic flop which promises to become an international incident...
Distinct advances have been made on the problem of converting the active principle of sarsparilla root into sex hormones. Fry probably will be engaged in continuation of the same problem...
...Midwest university furnishes Author Fisher's main clinical specimens. Mouthpiece is lanky, whimsical, brilliant Jim Jones, head of the psychology department, who psychologizes the theme of the book: that "both among persons and nations" over-or underdevelopment of the ego causes most contemporary maladjustment, with sex playing the decisive role...
...Sex certainly plays the decisive role in Author Fisher's minor cases. A 200-pound English department head is a suppressed rakehell and sadist. Pompous little President Ledwidge launches a one-man anti-necking campaign by sneaking up on parked cars, yanking co-eds out of back seats. Brilliant, introvert Virgin Jerry Young is a beautiful woman whose career as a psychologist is wrecked when she is driven out of town by neurotic, wisecracking natives after a trumped-up arrest. Sorriest egotist of the lot is handsome John Smith, who marries with the belligerent vow always to tell...