Word: shysters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From a situation that could not be misconstrued even by the average student, the dance manager selection has been blotched into a mess that would stump anyone but a shyster lawyer. Here are the dates in the evolution of this comedy of errors. -The Daily Kansan...
...submitted. Twenty merchants had supplied good goods. Six others, with the bulk of the orders, had tried to palm off material containing moth holes, streaks, bare places, weak spots. Angered, Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick gave the six a chance to make good before publishing their names. Still hopeful, one shyster took back his shoddy, resubmitted it as a new delivery...
...Chaser (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Remake of a 1933 exposé of ambulance-chasing lawyers-notable, if at all, for Lewis Stone's performance as the shyster hero's whiskey-toping doctor...
...Mlle. Bell) in search of ten boys she had known in her youth. She had gone to her first ball, a card dance, when she was sixteen, and each of her partners with true Gallic gallantry had told her they loved her. Five she finds alive, a priest, a shyster, a hairdresser, an epileptic, and the mayor of a sunny little town in the Midi...
...pictures who, when they are not acting, go to school on the lot. Headliner among them is an itsy-bitchy angel face (Betty Philson) who starts the ball rolling by having her teacher fired. Thereafter, the dear old Goldwyn-rule days give way to the usual mad, noisy, illiterate, shyster antics of the movie industry. Maddest, noisiest, worst illiterate, biggest shyster is a movie magnate (Robert H. Harris) who looks as sinister as a Kewpie doll, acts as honorably as a double-crossing spy, throws telephones across the stage, never lets his right-hand man know what his left-hand...