Word: slickers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of "Love and Hisses," lies in its humor, which ranges from the involved practical jokes of the city slicker, as played by Mr. Winchel and Mr. Bernie, to the magnificent clowning of Bert Lahr and Joan Davis, who make a good bid to steal the show. In between these extremes, however, is the simpler and far more appealing humor of the naive mind, childishly coping with the wicked world. At this sort of thing, strangely enough, Mile Simon is very good indeed...
...calves worry about that rather than his daughters, who milk the cows. A salesman of dairy farm equipment, ignorant of bovine prolificacy, when he saw Alta and six calves in one pen, inquired if she were the mother of all. Poth, seeing an opportunity to fool a "city slicker," did not discourage the idea. The salesman told a news reporter...
...trial for the death of her father, Miss Hutchinson is defended by George Brent, city slicker lawyer, and since their love has none of the usual cinematic forver, it forms a more than adequate basis for their tribulations. Brent, by the aid of an ambulance, an aeroplane, and numerous howling hillbillies in potato-sack hoods, rescues his love while the audience sighs with relief...
...roof was plastered with the sopping petals of flowers thrown from balconies. At the waterside President Roosevelt stopped to shake hands with the Argentine chauffeur, who beamed from ear to ear at the unexpected honor. The crowd cheered filial devotion as Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt buttoned a yellow slicker up around his father's neck. "Aprés vous," said the bilingual President of the U. S. to the President of Argentina, and followed him up the gangplank...
...Knoxville, climbed into an open automobile and headed a caravan of Democratic Governors and Congressmen up a new 140-mile highway through Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Its woodsy peaks and valleys "thrilled and delighted" him. Caught in a thunder shower at lunch time, he wriggled into a slicker, washed down fried chicken and caviar sandwiches with a bottle of beer. At a Cherokee Indian Reservation near Sylva, N. C., Chief Standing Deer (Jerry Blythe) capped the President with a headdress of eagle feathers, mumbled some Cherokee which made him the tribe's Chief White Eagle. White Eagle...